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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cruise

Salary$122,400 - $180,000
SRECloudGoPythonJava
Role brief

What you’ll be doing:
 

  • Build platforms, services, or tools that enable engineers to deliver operationally mature services in production

  • Help teams with automating tedious tasks and enable them to quickly launch new services and execute optimally

  • Work with service owners to have a proactive approach to designing tests, observing results and creating fixes for complex failure scenarios.

  • Help service owners  identify and instrument Service Level Objectives and design alerts that follow best practices

  • Facilitate blameless postmortems and drive effective action items
     

What you must have: (These are must-haves; skills that someone must have entering the role on day 1 and required for hiring)
 

  • Senior level experience as an Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Production Engineer

  • Significant Experience with Cloud Platforms such as Google Cloud Platform,  Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services

  • Fluent with one or more programming languages such as Go, Python or Java

  • Ability to debug and optimize code 

  • Experience with Incident Management platforms like Firehydrant

  • Ability to coordinate and manage incident response

  • Skills in defining  and instrumenting SLOs and SLIs using query languages and observability tooling

  • Automate tasks and processes with open source tools

  • Streaming and Database technologies such as Postgres, Kafka, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, etc.


 

Bonus points!  

  • Previous experience as an SRE or System Engineer

  • Previous Experience with Firehydrant

  • Previous experience with Backstage or another Developer Experience tool

  • Familiarity with Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other Configuration Management Tooling

  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Istio, Terraform, Vault, Google Cloud

The salary range for this position is $122,400 - $180,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.