Site Reliability Engineer @ Photon

SRE Engineer is responsible for ensuring website uptime, optimizing performance, and maintaining security of the production application. This role involves monitoring site reliability, addressing technical issues, automating maintenance tasks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet business objectives.

Responsibilities

Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health

Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications

Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions

Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement

Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications

Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding

Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures

Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning

Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts

Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives

Required skills and qualifications

Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline

Experience in SRE, DevOps, or similar roles.

Expertise in monitoring tools, infrastructure management, and automation.

Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement