Senior Reliability Engineer
Location
Redmond, WA
Level
Senior-Level
Department
Consumer Electronics
Type
Salary
$120,000 - $230,000
Job Description
Posted on:
2025-10-18
Responsibilities
- Build and bring specialized knowledge across multiple production aspects (monitoring, release engineering, testing, live site excellence, buildout, performance optimization, capacity management).
- Analyze large-scale telemetry and operational data to uncover insights and drive data-informed decisions.
- Use principles and practices such as safe deployment, testing for reliability, and disaster recovery.
- Respond to alerts and incidents.
- Build and follow playbooks to drive root cause analysis and reviews.
- Partner with hardware and firmware teams to understand system behavior and identify predictive analytics opportunities.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and contribute to service reliability and incident resolution.
Job Requirements
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years of experience.
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering or operations for large-scale distributed systems.
- Ability to support a 24x7 data center environment and participate in on-call rotations.
- Proficiency in programming languages (C#, Python, Go, etc.).
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), networking, and system design.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools, incident management frameworks, and DevOps practices.
- Must meet Microsoft security screening requirements.
