Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Data Management & Analytics Platform
Used Tools & Technologies
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Required Skills & Competences
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About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Security @ 3
Docker @ 3
Go @ 6
Grafana @ 6
Kubernetes @ 3
Prometheus @ 6
DevOps @ 5
IaC @ 3
Terraform @ 3
Python @ 6
CI/CD @ 3
Datadog @ 6
Distributed Systems @ 3
Kinesis @ 3
AWS @ 6
Mathematics @ 3
Networking @ 3
SRE @ 3
CloudFormation @ 3
Databricks @ 3
Reporting @ 3
Snowflake @ 3
Compliance @ 2
Observability @ 3
Data Pipelines @ 3
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
At Bloomberg, data is at the heart of everything we do. As part of the Data Management and Analytics Platform (DMAP) SRE team you will play a critical role in driving analytics throughout the organization to improve our products, better engage with our customers, create greater efficiencies, and unlock new business opportunities through data-driven insights.
Our team is responsible for capturing and processing the who, what, when, where, and why of how clients use Bloomberg products, how our systems perform, and how employees interact with customers. We ingest and prepare massive volumes of data to power reporting, dashboards, self-service tools, and advanced analytics used across the company.
We are looking for a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who is passionate about building and operating highly reliable, scalable data platforms in the cloud. In this role, you will focus on ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of critical data pipelines and analytics infrastructure. You will work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, applying automation, observability, and reliability best practices to support large-scale distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale data ingestion and analytics platforms
- Define, implement, and monitor SLIs/SLOs for data systems and services; drive reliability improvements using error budgets and operational metrics
- Improve observability across data pipelines and platforms through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and system management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Lead incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement post-incident improvements
- Optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of cloud-based data systems
- Ensure data platform reliability, including batch and streaming pipelines, storage systems, and reporting infrastructure
- Partner with data engineers, software engineers, and stakeholders to improve system reliability and operational maturity
- Strengthen platform security through proactive monitoring, vulnerability management, and cloud security best practices
- Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes for data infrastructure
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (Python and/or Go)
- Experience supporting production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and observability
- Hands-on experience operating or designing highly available distributed systems
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
Preferred / "We'd Love To See"
- Experience supporting large-scale data platforms, data pipelines, or analytics infrastructure
- Strong experience operating production systems in AWS at scale
- Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Strong background in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog)
- Experience leading incident management and conducting postmortems
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud architecture
- Experience with containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of AWS services related to data platforms (e.g., S3, EMR, Lambda, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift)
- Knowledge of Databricks or Snowflake platform
- Experience with cloud networking concepts (VPCs, routing, security groups)
- Experience optimizing cloud costs in large-scale environments
- AWS certification (Associate level or above)
- A security-first mindset and familiarity with compliance and data governance best practices
- Experience using operational metrics and data to drive continuous improvement
Location & Business Area
- Location: Princeton
- Business Area: Engineering and CTO
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary Range: 160,000 - 240,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus
- Benefits may include: merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, life insurance, and wellness programs. (The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.)