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LaunchDarkly · 2 days ago

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$166K/yr - $212K/yr

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Responsibilities

Lead the development and continuous refinement of SRE tools and processes to improve software delivery, observability, reliability, and operational efficiency. Your impact extends beyond your team’s boundary to proactively improve our overall service health.

Uplevel our engineering team to deliver their services with higher autonomy, reliability, and performance through offerings written in Go and Terraform, or delivered through existing tools.

Define and standardize service health and reliability metrics that align with business goals, and ensure these metrics are transparent and actionable.

Help improve the effectiveness of our incident management lifecycle and drive initiatives to train key roles involved in incident response and our post-incident review process.

Partner with various team members to define and mature our SRE culture through principles, technical frameworks, tooling, and processes. You will mentor and coach SRE team members and engineers in adjacent teams to promote a culture of SRE learning and growth.

Drive the adoption of new technologies, system designs, and best practices in code health, testing, observability, and service maintainability across teams.

Proactively identify and resolve potential performance and scalability bottlenecks in our front-end and back-end systems and underlying infrastructure.

Analyze the performance of SQL queries, suggest improvements, and build guardrails for teams.

Qualification

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Large-Scale SystemsAnalytical SkillsServer-Side Web DevelopmentInfrastructure-as-CodeArchitectural GuidanceScalability ConsiderationsSecurity PracticesCloud ProvidersObservability ToolingRDBMS TechnologiesProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementProblem-SolvingCommunicationCustomer FocusPositive AttitudeEmpathy

Required

Demonstrable experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems; You also possess advanced analytical skills to anticipate and mitigate complex system behaviors and incidents before they impact our customers.

Comfort with server-side web development (e.g., in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js) and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform.)

Experience guiding the architectural direction and scalability considerations for new projects.

Strong understanding and proactive management of security practices related to SRE, coordinating with our Security team to fortify infrastructure.

Extensive experience working with major cloud providers, observability tooling, and RDBMS technologies is crucial for this role.

Experience leading team ceremonies: project ideation, planning, grooming, and project retrospectives. You will also drive alignment on decisions with cross-team impact, identify areas of misalignment across the team, and bring stakeholders together to realign.

Strong customer focus and ability to make technical decisions that tie back to business goals.

Exceptional communication skills, a positive attitude, and a high degree of empathy

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Mental Health Benefits

Company

LaunchDarkly

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LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers.

Founded in 2014

Oakland, California, USA

501-1,000 employees

http://launchdarkly.com

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