SRE Senior Engineer/Specialist

Role Overview

• Write, configure, and deploy code that improves service reliability for existing or new systems; set standard for others with respect to code quality.
• Provide helpful and actionable feedback and review for code or production changes.
• Drive repair/optimization of complex systems with consideration towards a wide range of contributing factors.
• Lead debugging, troubleshooting, and analysis of service architecture and design.
• Participate in on-call rotation.
• Write documentation: design, system analysis, runbooks, playbooks. Provide design feedback and uplevel design skills of others.
• Implement and manage SRE monitoring applications using AI, Python, and Observability data.
• Develop tooling using Terraform and other IaC tools to ensure visibility and proactive issue detection across our platforms.
• Work within GCP infrastructure, optimizing performance, and cost, and scaling resources to meet demand.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance system reliability and performance, applying a platform engineering mindset to system administration tasks.
• Develop and maintain AI-enhanced automated solutions for operational aspects such as on-call monitoring, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.
• Participate in postmortem analysis and create preventative measures for future incidents.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across our infrastructure, ensuring compliance with industry standards and internal policies. Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments.
• Participate in capacity planning and forecasting efforts to ensure our systems can handle future growth and demand. Analyze trends and make recommendations for resource allocation.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks through code profiling, system analysis, and configuration tuning. Implement and monitor performance metrics to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure business continuity in the event of a major outage or disaster. Participate in regular disaster recovery exercises.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer or similar role.
• Agentic AI and MCP development experience preferred.
• Strong experience with Python development and desired familiarity with Terraform Provider development.
• Experience with Dynatrace SaaS preferred.
• Proficient with monitoring and observability tools.
• Proficient with cloud services, with a strong preference for Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience.
• Solid programming skills in Python, with a good understanding of software development best practices.
• Experience with relational and document databases.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Terraform

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.