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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Elastic Disk joins the Elastic Disk SRE team to build and run next-generation distributed storage systems supporting critical cloud services. This role involves taking ownership of projects, crafting technical designs, providing peer feedback, and driving standards across a multi-site team. The engineer will manage infrastructure across the full stack, from tuning block storage layers to managing content delivery network traffic. Day-to-day responsibilities include handling on-call alerts, performing data migrations, capacity planning, and automating manual operations. Candidates must possess expertise in Linux system internals, networking protocols, and distributed systems. Required skills include proficiency in Go, Java, Python, or Rust, along with experience in block, object, and file storage solutions like LVM, XFS, S3, Ceph, and Gluster. Familiarity with Kubernetes, configuration management tools like Ansible, and databases such as Cassandra or Postgres is also valued.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $188000 from 134 postings across 37 companies.
Build and operate large-scale distributed storage systems across multiple geographically dispersed data centers.
Develop, test, and deploy software using languages such as Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
Manage Linux system internals, including block, object, and file storage solutions like LVM, XFS, and Ceph.
Automate manual operations to improve efficiency and simplify service delivery.
Perform capacity planning, data migration, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery for critical services.
Monitor and maintain high availability by responding to alerts on a rotating on-call schedule.
Manage large-scale infrastructure using configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
Optimize the full infrastructure stack from block storage tuning to content delivery network traffic management.
What we're looking for
4+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems or large-scale stateful systems like distributed databases.
Ability to design, author, understand, and release code in Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust.
Good understanding of Linux block, object, and file storage solutions such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, and NFS.
Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup and recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
Acute drive to automate manual operations and improve them through repeated iteration (preferred).
Awareness of best practices for deployment of storage systems including physical/virtual models, change management, failure domains, and hardware lifecycle management (preferred).
Experience with configuration management or software delivery platforms like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker (preferred).