Senior Software Engineer - Reliability Engineer (Remote)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide.
• Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
• Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.
• Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production.
• Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens.
• Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems.
• Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• Collaborates with other team members in agile processes.
• Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Works with the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable.
• Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
• Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 3 or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Extensive experience managing Google Cloud Platform projects and services including infrastructure, Compute, Developer Tools, Security and Identity.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with both Unix and Windows operating systems.
• Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication.
• Experience in creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests.
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques.
• Experience with version control systems.
• Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security.
• Operational support experience with a focus on system reliability.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience writing documentation, providing peer tutelage, providing consultative services, and presenting technical solutions and training to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Extensive experience managing Google Cloud Platform projects and services including infrastructure, Compute, Developer Tools, Security and Identity.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with both Unix and Windows operating systems.
• Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication.
• Experience in creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests.
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques.
• Experience with version control systems.
• Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security.
• Operational support experience with a focus on system reliability.
• Ability to share knowledge across engineering functions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience writing documentation, providing peer tutelage, providing consultative services, and presenting technical solutions and training to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.