Core Platform Engineer/ SRE

Balin Technologies Llc
Sunnyvale, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Software Debugging Software Design Patterns File Systems Distributed Data Store Memory Management Python (Programming Language) Linux Kernel Network Programming Ansible
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TCP/IP Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Bare Metal Terraform

Job description

The engineering first line of defense: incident response, triage, reliability, and automation across the full infrastructure stack. Day-to-day:

  • Runs incident response drills, post-mortems, and root cause analysis; learns from past incidents to prevent recurrence.
  • Starts the day reviewing overnight alerts and system performance metrics, triaging anomalies.
  • Participates in team stand-ups on projects, incidents, and daily priorities.
  • Automates routine processes, analyzes system logs, and builds tools to strengthen monitoring.
  • Works alongside software engineers advising on resilient-code best practices and reviewing changes pre-deployment.
  • Maintains high SLIs/SLOs; documents work and shares insights with a customer-centric mindset.

Requirements

  • Architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems.
  • Incident command experience - driving RCA, coordinating cross-functional teams, ensuring corrective-action follow-through.
  • Observability built from the ground up - defining SLOs/SLIs, closing monitoring gaps, alerting strategies that catch failures before customers do.
  • Linux kernel internals - scheduler, memory allocation, driver subsystems.
  • High-quality code in at least one language (Python, Go, or similar).
  • System-level debugging - kdump, kernel panic analysis.
  • IaC (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes) and CI/CD (GitLab CI, AWX, etc.) for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure.
  • TCP/IP and network programming.
  • Distributed storage systems - object, block, and/or file storage paradigms.
  • Strong communication skills.

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