Role Overview

Ensures system reliability, performance, and availability through a combination of software engineering and systems administration practices. They focus on building scalable and reliable distributed systems while maintaining high availability and performance standards. Responsibilities include implementing monitoring and alerting systems, automating operational tasks and incident response, conducting performance optimization and capacity planning, managing system deployments and rollbacks, and defining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. They work with monitoring tools, automation frameworks, container orchestration platforms, and various programming languages. Daily tasks involve monitoring system health, responding to incidents, implementing automation solutions, conducting post-incident reviews, optimizing system performance, and collaborating with development teams to improve system reliability.