Sr. Service Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Role Summary

As a senior service (site) reliability engineer (SRE) in BlueX Trade, you will ensure both our internally critical and externally-visible systems have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally you will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Moreover, you will collaborate closely with the product team and the development team, and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team. You will help the team to deliver great products and delight our consumers.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation
• Evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

At BlueX Trade, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. BlueX Trade does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, political or labor union affiliation, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Qualifications

• ​​Experience in working in a Unix-like environment and good at shell scripting.
• ​​Experience with monitoring systems, tracing and observability to manage large scale systems.
• Passion for learning cutting-edge technologies and automating large scale processes
• Software architecture design skills for maintaining High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Ability to debug.
• Knowledge of Development ecosystem tooling: Git/CI/Kubernetes
• Knowledge of continuous integration via tools like Jenkins, Gitlab CI, and etc.
• Good at at least one programming language (Java, Javascript, Python, and etc.)
• Ability to automate routine tasks.
• Experience in working within Agile teams.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with building and maintaining application stacks in a Cloud or Hybrid Cloud environment
• Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS).