Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Summary:

Our Performance and Reliability teams are leading the improvements, optimization, and availability of applications across the Disney organization and business units, taking a consultative approach to Reliability Engineering by supporting, educating, mentoring, and delivering automation to foster performance and resiliency in best practice.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is a key member of our Performance and Reliability embedded teams. We focus on planning, scoping, solution architecting, software design, and implementation based on functional and performance capability requirements. We leverage cloud-native, commercial, and open-source tools and frameworks to solve complex business needs.  These solutions touch a wide range of functional areas.  This role will collaborate with Software Engineers, Product Owners, and others across teams and business areas to influence solutions and platforms across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Build solutions for problems of sizable scope and complexity that have been successfully deployed to customers.

• Champions Infrastructure as Code (IaC); provides thought leadership; establishes enterprise-level infrastructure patterns.

• Builds and enhances Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Regularly review existing systems, policies, and practices, while identifying solutions that enhance service delivery efficiency, and enhance the current environment.

• Mentors less experienced engineers. Collaborates with product engineering leaders to find innovative solutions for moderately complex problems.

• Writes code that establishes and enhances frameworks, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.

• Reviews code for the design, testability, and clear usability.

• Develops specifications for assigned components, projects or fixes.

• Builds solutions that scale and perform.

• Participates in project proposal, architecture, and design. Contributes to architecture design and implementation of assigned projects and may lead in the effort.

• Oversees technical maintenance. Performs troubleshooting for systems that tend to be large and highly complex.

• Design, development, documentation and/or testing.

• Applies experience to resolve a variety of complex issues.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years within the Reliability Engineering field.

• Well-versed with Reliability Engineering principles, patterns, and best practices.

• Ability to understand the business domain from both a technical and product viewpoint.

• 5+ Years experience working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and resources.

• 5+ Years experience in designing and implementing automation tools.

• 5+ Years experience running and monitoring large scale distributed systems

• Proficient in Python and/or other coding language.

• Well-versed with modern infrastructure services and concepts such as containerization, distributed systems and microservices.

• Experience designing and implementing automation tools.

• Well-versed in Software Engineering principles and patterns.

• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

• Experience as a coach and mentor within a business environment.

• Experience working within an Agile environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience.

The hiring range for this position in New York or Seattle is $142,600 to $191,100 per year, in Los Angeles is $132,000 to $181,000 and in San Francisco is $152,000 to $201,000. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.