Site Reliability Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not provided

Pythian is a multinational company specializing in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. They have a strong history in database reliability and have expanded into cloud and advanced analytics, partnering with major cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. They empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI.

Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring service reliability, automating tasks, mentoring team members, and collaborating with development teams to improve observability.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure services and systems are reliable by focusing on scalability, latency, performance, availability, efficiency, and observability.
• Develop systems and maintain key components to automate and minimize human labor.
• Enhance system reliability while decoupling system size from operational toil and complexity.
• Provide training and mentoring, both technically and customer satisfaction oriented.
• Utilize relevant development languages and knowledge of systems, services, and tools appropriate for the business area to build software applications.
• Serve as the primary contact for this area.
• Develop readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries.
• Mentor junior team members on code readability and reusability.
• Ensure data security, integrity, and quality by adhering to company standards and best practices.
• Design solutions that fulfill current business requirements and accommodate future enhancements.
• Guide teams to guarantee systems are reusable and interoperable.
• Use best practices to reduce risks to business operations by creating clear documentation like runbooks and operational guides.
• Collaborate with development teams to define and implement relevant observability metrics, with the goal of enhancing application reliability.
• Spearhead incident response for issues impacting their track.
• Leverage new technologies and automation to reduce operational and maintenance costs.
• Eliminate toil and repetitive tasks.

Requirements

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Application Instructions

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Company Information

Pythian is a multinational company specializing in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. They have a strong history in database reliability and have expanded into cloud and advanced analytics, partnering with major cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. They empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI.