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Site Reliability Engineer II

AT IBM
IBM

Site Reliability Engineer II

Austin, TX

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

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Your role and responsibilities

HashiCorp Boundary aims to provide a seamless, just-in-time remote access experience for customers to their infrastructure and other web applications without having to worry about passwords, certificates or other credentials. Boundary is offered as a Cloud platform, and this role will be part of the Boundary Enterprise Enablement team whose primary focus will be scale and reliability to enable hypergrowth among medium and large enterprises.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

As an engineer on the Boundary Product Reliability team,you will:

Develop a deep understanding on how customers use Boundary Cloud and enhance their experience through reliability

Drive service reliability by developing tooling that enables metric visibility using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs

Champion incident management processes that directly impact customer experience

Reduce the operational overhead of HashiCorp Boundary product and leverage data to understand the largest source of reliability risk

Deploy, manage, monitor a large-scale Boundary Cloud

Predict our future failures and work proactively to mitigate them

Have a passion for developer productivity to make other engineers lives better

Empowering engineers to troubleshoot their own issues by developing tools, frameworks and guardrails for safety

Advocate and implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, Zero-Downtime Upgrades etc.)

Partner with the broader HashiCorp organization to learn from incidents through a blameless postmortem process

Collaborate across teams to improve our tools based on experiences found from running our own software in production

Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • 5+ years of handling production applications at scale: Backend applications written in Golang, Databases, Observability, and AWS Primitives
  • Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
  • Clear communication skills while remaining empathetic and kind
  • An eagerness to learn through humility and reflection
  • Experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and database systems
  • Led or participated in incidents through incident management tools like incident.io, PagerDuty, etc

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Working knowledge of industry best practices related to information security
  • Working knowledge on AWS Aurora or postgres, Nomad or other orchestration platforms, Traefik or other load balancing technologies
  • Experience or willingness to conceive, document and advocate for best practices

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

  • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
  • Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
  • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
  • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
  • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, USA
Job ID: IBM-32455
Employment Type: Other

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