Site Reliability Engineer

New York, NY
Hedge Fund Talent /
Full-Time /
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Are you a Reliability Engineer that is skilled in software development and infrastructure support? Are you a Reliability Engineer that likes the challenge of building things to run at scale? If so, please read on.

This Hedge Fund in NYC based technology company seeks a talented Reliability Engineer that will use their exceptional knowledge to support and maintain their and cloud based infrastructure.

As the Reliability Engineer, you will:
• Program with Python, Java, C/C++, or Go
• Support large distributed software applications
• Provide software reliability, including better monitoring, alerting and documentation
• Gathering and analyzing metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding

What you need:

    • A bachelor’s degree in computer science or another highly technical, scientific discipline
    • Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages (such as Python, Java, C/C++, Go)
    • In-depth knowledge and experience in at least one of: host based networking, linux/unix administration, systems programming, distributed systems, databases, cloud computing, and a desire to learn more
    • The ability to leverage off the shelf and open source systems and utilities to provision production systems in a variety of domains, especially for multi-tenant use
    • A proven track record of automation and an algorithmic approach to solving problems
    • A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, performance bottlenecks, etc.
    • The ability to understand the inherent trade-offs between various software architectures as it relates to performance, resiliency/fault tolerance, load balancing, data consistency
    • Ability to profile and debug applications in real time
WE ARE UNABLE TO OFFER SPONSORSHIP OR THIRD PARTY REPRESENTATION FOR THIS POSITION