Cooley LLP · 1 month ago
Senior Technology Site Reliability Engineer
San Diego
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $205K/yr
6+ years expCooley LLP is seeking a Senior Technology Site Reliability Engineer to join their Infrastructure & Development Operations team. The role involves ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the firm’s critical infrastructure and applications by blending software engineering with systems engineering to build and maintain automated, resilient, and observable systems.
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Responsibilities
Monitor and maintain production systems to ensure high availability and performance
Implement and manage service-level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLO’s), agreements (SLA’s), and error budgets
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, including root cause analysis and postmortems
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery processes to reduce manual intervention
Partner with DevOps to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support safe and efficient software delivery
Implement observability solutions using metrics, logs, traces, and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, etc.)
Proactively identify and resolve system bottlenecks and reliability risks
Work closely with Infrastructure, DevOps, Development, and security teams to embed reliability into the development lifecycle
Contribute to a culture of blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement
Document operational procedures and share knowledge across teams
All other duties as assigned or required
Qualification
Required
After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
Ability to travel, as required
6+ years direct applicable experience (e.g. site reliability engineering or related field)
Proficiency in Terraform and programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java
Deep expertise in cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and container orchestration
Strong background in distributed systems, performance tuning, and automation
Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Salt
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or associated discipline
Experience working with advanced ETL data workflows including technologies such as AWS EMR, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, or Apache Hive/Spark/Airflow
Experience with IaC deployment of AKS/EKS/GKE architecture
Experience with enterprise Data Lake environments using technologies such as DataBricks or Snowflake
Benefits
Medical
Health savings account (with applicable medical plan)
Dental
Vision
Health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Life insurance
AD&D
Long-term care coverage
Backup care for children and/or adults
Other parental support benefits
Firm-paid life insurance
AD&D
LTD
Short term medical benefits
21 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”)
10 paid holidays each year
Generous parental leave
Fertility benefits
Company
Cooley LLP
Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation.
1001-5000 employees
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