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# SRE Engineer

- **Company:** Balin Technologies Llc
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Software Design Patterns, File Systems, Distributed Data Store, Memory Management, Python (Programming Language), Linux Kernel, Network Programming, Ansible, Subsystems, TCP/IP, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Bare Metal, Terraform, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b90ca119-6248-4038-ad97-c390899cb2fb

## About the Role

* Strong experience with architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling of new and current systems.
 * Experience leading and commanding incidents, including driving root cause analysis, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring follow-through on corrective actions.
 * Experience building observability from the ground up â€" defining SLOs/SLIs, closing monitoring gaps, and implementing alerting strategies that catch failures before customers do.
 * Proficiency in Linux kernel internals, with exposure to scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystem.
 * Experience writing high quality code with at least one programming language (Python, Go, or similar).
 * Experience with system-level debugging, including kdump, and kernel panic analysis..
 * Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes) and CI/CD practices (GitLab CI, AWX, etc.) for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure.. Experience with TCP/IP and network programming.
 * Experience with distributed storage systems and understanding of one or more of object, block, and file storage paradigms..
 * Hardware and GPU troubleshooting experience (nice to have).
 * Exposure to OVN/OVS-based networking stack (nice to have).
 * Strong communication skills.

## Description

Primary Skills: Python Coding, (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes) and CI/CD practices (GitLab CI, AWX, etc.) for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure.
Secondary Skills: TCP/IP and network programming., SRE Engineer

 * You will engage in incident response drills, post-mortems, and root cause analysis sessions to learn from past issues and prevent future ones.
 * Each morning starts with a structured review of overnight alerts and system performance metrics - identifying any anomalies, triaging what needs attention.
 * You will collaborate with your team in a morning stand-up meeting to discuss ongoing projects, recent incidents, and priorities for the day..
 * Your tasks will include automating routine processes, analyzing system logs, and developing tools to enhance our monitoring capabilities.
 * You''ll spend part of your day working closely with software engineers, advising on best practices for resilient code and reviewing changes before deployment.
 * Throughout the day, your focus is on maintaining high SLIs and SLOs, ensuring that our infrastructure remains robust and reliable for our customers.
 * By days end, you will document your work, share insights with your team, and plan for the next days challenges, always with a customer-centric mindset.


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