Staff Engineer – IaaS SRE

Position Responsibilities 
As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the teams and management 

•  Utilize programming languages like Go, Python, Java or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker, OpenStack and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services 

•  Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems 

•  Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains 

•  Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions 

•  Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives 

•  Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

•  Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans 

•  Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning 

 
Qualifications 

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Go, Python, Java, C, C++ including object-oriented design 

•   Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration 

•  Experience and confidence around incident response and incident management 

•  Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment 

• Experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK) 

• Understanding of operating PostgreSQL in a Kubernetes containerized environment 

•  Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 

•  Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana/Open Telemetry/Loki 

•  Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated iteration 

•  Experience with tools such as Terraform/Ansible 

•  Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools 

•  Such as Helm, Puppet, and Spinnaker 

•  Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks 

•  Familiarity with micro-services architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes/OpenStack/Azure 

•  Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 

•  Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches  

•  Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 

•  Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) 

•  Experience with micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs 

•  Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current syst