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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Poly serves as a Designated Responsible Individual who guides other engineers by developing playbooks, monitoring services for degradation or downtime, and initiating restoration actions for complex problems. The role involves creating design documents, refactoring code to improve performance, and taking full ownership of services across cloud environments to ensure parity with commercial cloud standards. You will identify automation opportunities to streamline operations and enhance service delivery while collaborating with cross-functional teams on project plans and release cycles. Required skills include experience with distributed systems, writing scripts in Python, JavaScript, or Shell scripting, and expertise in architecture, security, and observability. The position requires a technical background in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration to solve problems related to service availability, reliability, and performance within complex infrastructure environments.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor system health and lead incident response for service interruptions.
Develop, implement, and optimize code to improve performance, maintainability, and overall return on investment.
Create and manage design documents for products, applications, services, and platforms.
Take full ownership of assigned services across all cloud environments to ensure parity with commercial standards.
Identify and implement automation solutions to streamline operations and reduce manual effort.
Drive project plans, release schedules, and work items in partnership with project managers and stakeholders.
Conduct code and design reviews to share learnings and recommendations across engineering teams.
Proactively research and adopt new technologies to improve system reliability, observability, and efficiency.
What we're looking for
Must have a Master's degree and 2+ years experience, a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years experience, or a Doctorate and 3+ years experience in technical fields.
Must possess equivalent experience to the specified educational and experience combinations.
Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
Must be a United States citizen as verified by a valid passport or other approved documentation.
Must have 3+ years of technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
Must have experience writing scripts and functional programming code in languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Shell scripting to automate tasks.
Must possess end-to-end technical expertise in the architecture, code, features, and operations of specific products to improve performance and reliability.
U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
Site Reliability Engineering
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Java
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
Dynatrace
Bash
PowerShell
FedRAMP
Distributed Systems
Load Balancing
DNS