Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at LinkedIn fills the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex, web-scale systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will use your background as an operations generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues. The ideal candidate will be passionate about an operations role that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product, and he/she will also believe that automation is a key component to operating large-scale systems.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our Internet-facing services.
• Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications.
• Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth.
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind.
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 5+ years in a UNIX-based large-scale web operations role.
• Experience with Python, Perl, Ruby, or Java.
• Experience designing and operating critical web services.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Python experience, specifically for systems automation.
• Previous experience working with a geographically distributed team.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.
• Broad experience with multiple types of database management systems (relational, document-oriented, key-value).
• Good RESTful API and systems design sensibilities.
• Experience with general performance tuning and optimization of all aspects of platforms and services (systems, network, code).
• Experience in troubleshooting that span systems, network, and code.
• Broad understanding of Internet protocols and network programming.
• Excellent communication skills, initiative, and teamwork.

Suggested Skills: • Python Programming • System Design • System Troubleshooting

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