SES Group · 17 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expSES Inflight is offering an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer – Site Reliability who will design and develop tools to monitor next generation airline services. This role involves working within multi-disciplinary teams to build a globally deployed platform, ensuring high-quality technical solutions and continuous improvement.
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Responsibilities
Design and develop globally deployed cloud based micro-services solutions with high availability
Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code with best practices coding standards
Be responsible for current software development practices and principles to identify and implement process improvements
Work with micro-services teams on RESTful API designs - assist with future scripted API’s and web socket implementation and investigations
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline
7–10 years of experience in systems implementation with a focus on both custom web/mobile application development and commercial software systems, with exposure to multiple technical disciplines including development, QA, and DevOps
Strong Core Java skills with hands-on experience in Microservices, REST APIs, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and WebSockets
Proven experience building traditional and serverless applications on AWS (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.). Solid experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and cloud-native architectures
Hands-on expertise in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or AWS Code Pipeline; strong alignment with DevOps deployment practices
Strong understanding of infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar tools
Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting using tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or ELK stack
Proven ability to manage incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews, ensuring continuous reliability improvements
Knowledge of reliability and performance metrics (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs) and the ability to engineer systems that meet or exceed them
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
Familiarity with security best practices for cloud-native and distributed systems, including IAM, secrets management, and data encryption
Ability to work independently or as part of a global agile team, preferably in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment
Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, continuously improve systems reliability, scalability, and automation
Preferred
Experience in containerization with Docker or Kubernetes will be an advantage and bonus
Experience in React JS, Redux, Modular CSS, JavaScript is a plus
Working knowledge of AI frameworks like copilot, windsurf, spring AI and other model building tools
Company
SES Group
SES Group was founded in 1998 by Dr Tony Ball and rebranded as SES Group in 2014.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase