Staff Site Reliability Engineer
| Company | DAT Freight & Analytics |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, Beaverton, OR, USA, Denver, CO, USA |
| Salary | $155000 – $155000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, especially with SRE or Platform Engineering/Infrastructure teams.
- Total of 10+ years industry experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience (JavaScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C++, etc)
- Extensive experience with modern observability tools (Datadog preferred).
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
- Demonstrated success in leading large technical initiatives, including design, project management and gaining executive buy-in.
- Proven experience modernizing legacy code and infrastructure.
- Ability to work closely with peer teams, platform/software architects and management to drive key reliability improvements.
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and best practices for reliability.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with platform architects and management to ensure reliability targets are met.
- Advise engineering teams on best practices for measuring reliability and uptime.
- Assist and respond to critical engineering incidents
- Lead and mentor SRE engineers to improve their engineering skills.
- Provide technical guidance and best practices for use of cloud infrastructure and tooling. Be a driver for Infrastructure-as-Code within the platform.
- Spearhead major reliability-focused initiatives and projects.
- Help optimize our work to be customer-focused. Continually seek feedback from our customers on how we can improve.
- Migrate legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud environments.
- Help develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement with the Platform Engineering and Software Engineering groups.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and occasionally act as Incident Commander.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with our tools (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Github Actions) a plus.