Senior Software Engineer Site Reliability Engineering (Linux)

Our client is a leading global investment and technology development firm with more than $90 billion in investment capital, and offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Since its founding in 1988, the firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of its staff, with a significant presence in the worlds capital markets across a wide range of companies and financial instruments in both developed and developing economies.

Our client is looking for a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to build tooling and automation for the firms Linux infrastructure and own its observability stack end to end, with strong Go/Python development skills and hands-on observability platform experience as the primary search priority.

Position Type: Permanent – Individual Contributor

Mode of Interview: Virtual

Experience: 4 – 8 Yrs

Work Mode: Hybrid

Skills: Go/Python, Linux Internals & Core Infrastructure Services, Observability Platforms (Grafana, Grafana Mimir, ELK), SRE Practices (SLIs/SLOs, Alerting, Capacity Planning), Highly Available Distributed Systems & Incident Response

Some of the key responsibilities will include:

• Writing production-grade services, tools, and automation in Go and/or Python for the firm’s Linux infrastructure.
• Building and running observability platforms covering metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Designing and maintaining highly available distributed systems, applying SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and capacity planning practices.
• Leading incident response and blameless postmortems, and engineering toil out of operations rather than absorbing it.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to code and design reviews.

To be eligible for this role you will require:

• 4-8 years of software development and SRE experience, writing production-grade services, tools, and automation in Go and/or Python.
• Deep understanding of Linux internals, with familiarity across core infrastructure services such as Kerberos, TLS, Puppet, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, mail, and load balancers.
• Hands-on experience building and running observability platforms covering metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting, using tools such as Grafana, Grafana Mimir, and ELK.
• Solid grounding in reliability practices, including SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Experience designing and maintaining highly available distributed systems.
• A track record of leading incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to code and design reviews.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience applying GenAI to observability and reliability (e.g., anomaly detection, alert-noise reduction, incident triage, log analysis, AIOps) (preferred).
• Experience with Kubernetes and workflow systems such as Temporal (preferred).
• Hands-on experience operating ClickHouse or similar high-throughput data stores (preferred).

This is an opportunity to join a critical Site Reliability Engineering function within a leading global investment and technology firm, owning observability and reliability for mission-critical Linux infrastructure.

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