About the role:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Bloomberg uses both software and system engineering to build and reliably run our production systems. SRE ensures our services are meeting our user's expectations and rely on automation to enable quick and continuous improvements. Creating a world class production system will require advanced engineering enabled by orchestration, capacity planning, observability, and automated deployment pipelines. Most of our software development is focused on eliminating work through automation, optimizing existing systems, and building the analytics tools.

On the SRE team you'll have the opportunity to work on diverse challenges that will require your expertise in coding, complexity analysis and system design. We look for people with a wide variety of background, experiences and perspectives. We encourage collaboration and risk taking through big ideas in a blame-free environment. We strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentoring needed to learn from each other and help us grow.

Who are you?

Your intellectual curiosity and desire to solve problems drives you to continue making things better and simpler. You enjoy working across many different domains of software and system engineering. You get excited about the opportunity to dive into complex issues and collaborating with the team for appropriate solutions.
You'll need to have:

•  Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, and/or related professional experience
•  3+ years of experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C++, Typescript

We'd love to see:

•  Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
•  Passion and experience in automating everything
•  Systematic problem solving with effective communication
•  Understanding of Linux or Unix Operating Systems
•  Experience building production systems on public cloud e.g. AWS, Azure, Google cloud

Responsibilities:

•  Define, track and help improve the customer experience in terms of reliability, performance and accuracy
•  Work with component teams to improve the lifecycle of services, including design, deployment, operation, launch reviews and chaos testing
•  Use automation to improve production systems, including scaling, analysis, automated incident response and removing manual operations
•  Create tools to improve the observability and understanding of our systems and processes
•  Promote changes that improve reliability and velocity
•  Help with incident response and guide blameless postmortems

Other Resources:

•  Learn how Bloomberg bets big on our SREs: https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/bloomberg-bets-big-on-sres/
•  How we outsmart outages: bit.ly/SRE_BBG
•  Check out Bloomberg Engineering: https://www.bloomberg.com/engineering
•  Read about the unique problems we’re solving: https://www.techatbloomberg.com/