Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Traffic Front End

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become a trusted global digital public square, committed to minimal censorship within legal boundaries. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Location:

US: San Francisco, New York

London (UK), Dublin (IE)

Salary Range:

$120,000 to $297,000

Who We Are:

X serves our community of users and customers by preserving free expression and choice, fostering limitless interactivity, and creating a marketplace for economic success.

What You'll Do:

Join X's dynamic Site Reliability Engineering teams across various domains and locations. As an SRE, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the high performance, reliability, and security of our systems. Each team focuses on different aspects of our infrastructure.

Team:​

As a Staff SRE Engineer on the Traffic Front End teams you will:

• Oversee the operation of software and services in the Traffic Front End team

• Leverage deep expertise in networking, routing, and traffic patterns.

• Leverage deep expertise in service discovery, distributed services, and cloud infrastructure.

• Develop monitoring, alerting, and incident response solutions.

• Contribute to ongoing enhancement efforts and champion reliability engineering best practices.

Who You Are:

• Highly motivated team player with initiative.

• Strong debugging, documentation and communication skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment.

• Availability for occasional travel (up to 20%).
   

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 5+ to 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or related roles.

• Expertise in relevant technologies, such as CDN operations, containerization, incident management, traffic routing, and distributed systems.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Perl, Go).

• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux system administration at scale.

If you thrive in a dynamic, high-growth tech environment and relish the opportunity to collaborate with passionate, driven over-achievers, your career with us here at X will be both exhilarating and fulfilling!