WatchGuard

Site Reliability Developer (python/java) / SRE

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3 Locations

In-Office

Mid level

Cybersecurity

The Role

As a Site Reliability Developer, you'll ensure production reliability, automate processes, support development teams, and lead incident responses in cloud environments.

Summary Generated by Built In

Who you are:

You are a customer-focused, data-driven developer who has a passion for delivering the best customer experience possible. You enjoy the thrill of coordinating and troubleshooting production issues and want to proactively find and fix issues.

You have an understanding of cloud technologies, automation, everything-as-code, networking, microservice architectures, object-oriented design, SRE and DevOps cultures, proficiency in Python, Java, or Go programming and a desire to learn others.

You come with proven knowledge of software engineering best practices for the full software development lifecycle including coding standards, code reviews, security, source control management, build processes, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, chaos engineering, and automated self-healing operations. As well as knowledge of tools and technologies like CloudFormation, Terraform, New Relic, Lambda, Serverless, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Flink, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, Jira, etc.

You are able to lead production incident response and postmortems through your strong analytical and problem-solving abilities as well as verbal and written communication skills.

What to expect as a member of the SRE team in WatchGuard:

The WatchGuard SRE team owns the reliability and security of our production cloud environments alongside our application development teams to ensure we deliver the best possible experience to our customers. As you learn more about our systems, you will be:

• Ensuring smooth production operations with development teams and leading large-scale event response.

• Defining operational and security policies, standards, and processes for our development teams to follow.

• Guiding our development teams through the process of establishing, monitoring, and achieving their service level agreements through the definition of service level indicators and objectives.

A Typical Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Developer, SRE Team at WatchGuard:

As a SRE at WatchGuard, a “typical” day may have you:

• Working side-by-side with our application teams in production AWS, Azure, and hybrid cloud environments to ensure proper monitoring, security, reliability, automation, and support are in place.

• Driving an operational excellence culture throughout WatchGuard with the simplification, automation, analysis, and evolution of our activities and processes.

• Championing security and operational best practices to become known as a cloud expert by the rest of our development teams located across the globe.

• Striving to provide the best possible customer experience even when things go wrong by participating in our on-call rotation and then coordinating and leading the production troubleshooting efforts.

• Using your programming skills to develop automation or assist with debugging and fixing complex production issues.

• Being curious, learning new things, and then sharing your knowledge through documentation, presentations, and guidance to other teams.

Skills Required

Experience in Python, Java, or Go
Knowledge of cloud technologies and microservice architectures
Proficient in software engineering best practices
Experience with automation and self-healing operations
Strong problem-solving and communication skills

WatchGuard Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about WatchGuard and has not been reviewed or approved by WatchGuard.

Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support. Feedback suggests plan breadth and quality are a recurring bright spot.
Parental & Family Support — Caregiver benefits include paid parental leave, backup care, adoption assistance, fertility coverage, and, in some locales, subsidized childcare. Feedback suggests these supports meaningfully enhance the total package for families.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO and holidays are emphasized alongside options like paid sick time and volunteer time. Feedback suggests time off provisions contribute to a favorable work-life balance.

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The Company

HQ: Seattle, WA

1,018 Employees

Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in unified cybersecurity. Our Unified Security Platform® approach is uniquely designed for managed service providers to deliver world-class security that increases their business scale and velocity while also improving operational efficiency. Trusted by more than 17,000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250,000 customers, the company’s award-winning products and services span network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Together, they offer five critical elements of a security platform: comprehensive security, shared knowledge, clarity & control, operational alignment, and automation. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more, visit WatchGuard.com.