Blackstone · 11 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer - Data, Cloud & Developer Experience
New York 601 Lex
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $225K/yr
5+ years expBlackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager, and they are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability of systems and services. The role involves collaboration with development teams to implement SRE practices, enhance observability, and respond to incidents to ensure service availability.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm
Incorporate observability standards into code and deployment pipelines
Evolve the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams
Partner with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency
Assist developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants
Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners
Ensure monitoring and alerting reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations
Implement strategic observability tools and work to control overhead in maintenance and cost
Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact
Use automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention
Foster a blameless team culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting
Qualification
Required
5 + years of professional experience with either, Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering or Platform Engineering
Automation script writing skills; effectively reads and troubleshoots code (Python, C#, Typescript, etc.)
Makes effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, OpenAI)
Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience)
Configuration-as-code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling experience (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI)
Hand-on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS
Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux and Windows, and networking experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)
Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during postmortems
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Curiosity and motivation to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownership
Benefits
Comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits
Paid time off
Life insurance
401(k) plan
Discretionary bonuses
Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion.
Company
Blackstone
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager.
1001-5000 employees
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Brad Marshall
Global Head of Private Credit Strategies, Co-CEO of BCRED/BXSL
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