Responsibilities:
• Lead a team of site reliability engineers who are working to keep Twitter reliable and scalable;
• Partner with engineering leadership across Twitter to achieve reliability outcomes for their services;
• Drive and participate in deep technical design discussions within your team, and across partner teams, and ensure that we're building the right systems and keeping the quality high;
• Establish standard practices and processes for planning and prioritizing reliability work;
• Manage engineers spread out across various time zones and regions;
• Coach, grow, and empower your team to make impactful decisions that lead to their personal and professional success, and enable them to become technical leaders;
• Coach the individuals on your team to build and execute personal development plans that align with Twitter’s goals and objectives, and understand how their work fits into the bigger picture/mission.
Basic Qualifications:
• 5+ years of software engineering experience;
• Experience managing services in a distributed, internet-scale *nix environment;
• Development experience in Python, Scala, Java, C, or C++;
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP and HTTP;
• Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with systems programming (bash and shell tools);
• Experience using containerization software such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos;
• Familiarity with systems management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.);
• Comfortable working with on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP) in terms of deployment, support, monitoring, administration, and troubleshooting;
• Proven understanding of systems and application design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs;
• Experience with Kubeflow, Scatter-gather systems, and offline systems like Hadoop is a plus
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