Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company: LivePerson
Location: Seattle
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

LivePerson is a transformational force in how brands and consumers communicate. With over 18,000 brands, including HSBC, Disney, Verizon, and Home Depot, we are on a mission to make life easier for people and brands everywhere through trusted Conversational AI. We believe in a future where conversations are the norm for getting your intentions fulfilled - whatever they are.
We are an innovative, intent-driven company that believes in building the future and we are looking for growth minded, unconventional thinkers, developers and builders to join the team.
About this Role:This is an exciting opportunity to join LivePerson as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and help build the discipline as part of a new SRE organization. We're looking for passionate engineers to empower product developers to build and optimize running services in the cloud (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud). We need senior individual contributors that have strong experience around monitoring, deployments, and automation. The right candidate will also have a history of automating operations for distributed systems, databases, and/or networks on bare metal and a proven track record moving them to the cloud. Come be a part of the team that will promote a culture of operational excellence and provide insights across the company based on SLOs, error budgets, and metrics. You will report directly to the Director of SRE.
You will thrive here if: You can operate in a fast paced, dynamic environmentYou can build partnerships that move our business forwardYou build code that is simple, understandable, and clean You see feedback or failure as motivation to learn and to grow You believe data-driven decision making is the normYou relate to our core principles (link) and want to work with Conversational AI experts
In this role you will:

• Ensure high uptime and reliability of the LivePerson offerings 24x7.
• Design, integrate, and drive adoption of a cohesive ecosystem of tools for observability and deployments for online service owners to run world class online services.
• Track and reduce toil (manual, repetitive work) through automation as well as define and track SLOs (i.e. operational goals).
• Partner closely with leaders across LivePerson to drive a culture of operational excellence by providing data driven insights as well as design, write, and deliver solutions for all developers to utilize.
• Think beyond current models and look for repeatable site reliability automation patterns that can be productized as part of Live Person's offerings to its customers.
  Your qualifications are:
  • You have over 8 years of combined experience in software development and service (or systems) engineering plus a strong history using Site Reliability or equivalent practices and models. Networking and database experience preferred.
  • You have strong software development skills and can work cross-functionally with senior SDEs as peers. Java and Python experience preferred.
  • You have 6+ years of experience running services in public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; experience preferred migrating from running bare metal to public cloud.
  • Expert level knowledge of CI/CD tooling, monitoring, feature flag management, experimentation, and a proven track record delivering solutions in one or more of these areas.
  • You have experience mentoring and driving adoptions of these technologies across engineering organizations while leading by example.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
    Why you'll love working here:
    LivePerson was named to Fast Company's World's most innovative companies of 2020 list for the Artificial Intelligence category. We offer top tier tech & data science colleagues, along with opportunities to push your own limits. We embrace invention and experimentation. Most importantly, you'll have an ability to make an impact at work and at brands across the globe as we build the future with trusted Conversational AI together.
    
    At LivePerson, people from diverse backgrounds come together to do their best work and be their authentic selves. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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