Senior Software Engineer – SRE, Backend, Reliability Engineering
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AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython
Senior Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform
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full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $169,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
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AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython
About the role
- Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
- Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics; participate in ideation and articulate technical constraints
- Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them
- Support operations and availability by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting on-call efforts
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards, and advocating through writing and tech talks
- Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
- Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design
- Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with global engineering team
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
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