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CSE SRE – Systems Focus
Job Description
As a Software Dev Senior Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our Cloud-based services. You will define and enforce reliability standards, drive the adoption of SRE practices across engineering teams, and build the systems and tooling that keep our production infrastructure healthy. We follow a DevOps model: Development and Operations teams are integrated, and the SRE function acts as the reliability layer — setting Service Level Objectives, managing error alerts, and continuously reducing toil through engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead on call response and triage – help design and lead the 24x7 response team for triage and rally engineering to address service degradation, facilitating process and communications along the way
- Define, publish, and continuously refine Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for all critical services, partnering with product and engineering leadership.
- Own the error management practices, including monitoring and alerting, and surfacing notable errors to the development teamLead the design and implementation of comprehensive observability platforms — metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing — to ensure full visibility into production systems.
- Drive toil reduction initiatives by identifying and automating repetitive, manual operational work, targeting measurable reduction in operational burden across teams.
- Design and execute chaos engineering programs to proactively uncover reliability weaknesses in our infrastructure and services before they impact customers.
- Lead blameless postmortem culture: facilitate incident retrospectives, extract systemic learnings, and track corrective action items to completion.
- Build and improve on-call incident response processes, runbooks, and escalation paths; manage and optimize on-call rotation health to prevent burnout.
- Collaborate with platform and application developers to bring new features and services into production using production-readiness reviews and launch checklists.
- Champion reliability engineering best practices across the organization, embedding SRE principles into the software development lifecycle.
- Mentor team members on SRE philosophy, technical decision-making, code reviews, and cloud engineering best practices.
- Participate in roadmap planning, identify areas of improvement, and perform technology evaluation and selection.
Required:
- 8+ years of experience in scalable, distributed systems architecture.
- 3+ years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering experience, including ownership of SLOs and error budget management.
- 4+ years of experience with Cloud Platforms, including GCP.
- 4+ years of experience in infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK).
- 5+ years of experience in scripting using Python, Shell, or a similar language.
- • 4+ years of experience with orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes.
- In-depth understanding of networking, including routing, naming, security, network performance, and network failure modes.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or equivalent).
- Experience with incident management platforms and on-call tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, OpsGenie).
- Experience defining and implementing automated service deployments, including provisions for networking, security, reliability, management, reporting, and configuration management.
- • Experience managing databases — PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, MongoDB.
- CS Degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred:
- Familiarity with Google SRE principles and the concepts outlined in the Google SRE Book.
- In-depth understanding of the HTTP protocol and experience diagnosing distributed system latency issues.
- Experience with instrumentation and management of automated deployments.
- Experience resolving customer-facing production issues under time pressure.
- Experience with capacity planning, load testing, and performance benchmarking at scale.
- Experience working with distributed, cross-functional teams
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in scalable, distributed systems architecture
- 3+ years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering experience, including ownership of SLOs and error budget management
- 4+ years of experience with cloud platforms, including GCP
- 4+ years of experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform and AWS CDK
- 5+ years of scripting experience using Python, Shell, or a similar language
- 4+ years of experience with orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes
- In-depth understanding of networking, including routing, naming, security, network performance, and network failure modes
- Experience designing and operating observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or Jaeger
- Experience with incident management platforms and on-call tooling such as PagerDuty or OpsGenie
- Experience defining and implementing automated service deployments with networking, security, reliability, management, reporting, and configuration management
- Experience managing PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, and MongoDB databases
- Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with Google SRE principles and the Google SRE Book
- In-depth understanding of HTTP and experience diagnosing distributed-system latency issues
- Experience with instrumentation and management of automated deployments
- Experience resolving customer-facing production issues under time pressure
- Experience with capacity planning, load testing, and performance benchmarking at scale
- Experience working with distributed, cross-functional teams
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays and sick time, and bereavement leave are described alongside flexible or remote options. Feedback suggests ample time away meaningfully supports balance.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) and core financial protections such as life and disability insurance are included. Feedback suggests these fundamentals meet standard expectations for many.
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SonicWall has been fighting the cyber-criminal industry for over 25 years defending small, medium-size businesses and enterprises worldwide. Backed by research from the Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network, our award-winning real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, coupled with the formidable resources of over 10,000 loyal channel partners around the globe, are the backbone securing more than a million business and mobile networks and their emails, applications and data. This combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of the more than 500,000 global businesses in more than 215 countries and territories.
