Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

About the position

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Responsibilities

• Handle the operations of many of our team's services, sitting in the intersection between our development teams and our partners in infrastructure.
• Drive improvements to our architecture and operating practices with the goal of enabling the smooth operation of our services for our customers.
• Handle on-call support for these services in conjunction with our service and infrastructure teams.
• Address a given service's challenges with a sense of ownership, while also driving the same sense of ownership with other teams which contribute to it.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 2+ years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms like AWS (preferred).
• Experience of full life-cycle software engineering practices including coding standards, testing, code reviews and source control management.
• Proficient in technical writing documentation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience instrumenting applications for observability, including metrics collection, logging, and tracing.
• Experience with capacity planning and performance optimization of distributed systems.
• Knowledge of incident management processes and post-incident analysis.
• Experience in automating operational tasks and infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools like terraform.

Benefits

• Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
• Annual refresh stock grants.