Senior Software Engineer – Platform

**Role: Senior Software Engineer, Platform Reliability Operations** **Location: LATAM (Remote)** **Type: Contract** **Responsibilities:** * Analyze and improve system design to reduce failure modes and promote self\-healing systems * Establish and maintain robust systems that facilitate observability, encompassing logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting, and offline test tools. * Work with development partners to shape the architecture, design, and implementations of new and existing systems to enhance their reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability * Ability to work both independently as well as part of a geographically dispersed yet integrated team. * Collaborate with service engineers to establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for backend services. * Being able to identify the indications or cues that demonstrate the effectiveness of an application and having the knowledge to improve or repair its performance * Ability to assess options and suggest solutions when there is limited or unclear information. This position requires a level of comfort and assurance in dealing with uncertain situations. * Ability to work seamlessly within a team as well as manage individual tasks * Respond to emerging incidents, solve critical issues, and follow through with a plan for resolution or future mitigation * Act as an SME on the Engineering Operations team, partnering with backend services teams and application teams to overcome challenges across all the platforms where we stream our service **Required Skills:** * 5\+ years’ experience in software development * Degree in Computer Science or related or equivalent work experience * You have solid engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge, and the ability to write high\-performance production\-quality code. * Experience building service\-oriented APIs and cloud services * Experience designing, implementing, and deploying microservices * Extremely technical hands\-on server software experience * Proficient in Golang, and JavaScript, and quick to learn new languages. * Experience in the Linux environment and a good understanding of its fundamentals and internals: filesystems and modern memory management, threads, and processes, the user/kernel\-space divide, etc. * A good understanding of large\-scale distributed systems in practice, including multi\-tier architectures, application security, monitoring, and storage systems. * Working knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing, and load balancing. * Grit, drive, and a deep feeling of ownership. **Bonus Points for Experience with the following:** * Golang * Typescript * Kubernetes * Terraform * Open telemetry * eBPF * Datadog * Helm Charts * HLS video transcoding, distribution \& playback * Experience designing, implementing, and running services in high demand high\-traffic environments * Experience with high\-availability services Apply today or share profiles to moheswaran@georgiatek.com