Senior Software Engineer - Reliability Engineering (Remote)

About this role

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Position Purpose:

As a Senior Software Reliability Engineer on the Platform Reliability Engineering team, you will ensure the resilience, performance, and security of our enterprise Cloud Platform, working alongside partner RE and Enablement teams supporting our critical Engineering Experience services. As a subject matter expert in Reliability Principles and Practices, you will act as an anchor for our Cloud Platform, mentoring junior engineers — leading incident triage, root cause analysis, driving no-repeat resolutions of systemic problems through ownership of blameless postmortems. Your mission is to ensure that reliability is engineered into our platforms through automation, rigorous change, incident, problem management, and destructive testing, while establishing and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that let product teams build and run customer-facing workloads on highly available, paved-path solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Delivery and Execution - 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
• 20% Learns and Grows - 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
• 20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testabl...