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# Core Platform Engineer/ SRE

- **Company:** Balin Technologies Llc
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, TCP/IP, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Bare Metal, Terraform
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/4684a928-acb0-4834-8fc6-9e817dcd41be

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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