Senior Software Engineer/SRE - Media Connect

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New York, NY

Posted Apr 21, 2022 - Requisition No. 98773

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The Media Connect team is responsible for providing real-time communication solutions for the Bloomberg Professional Service. We specialize in developing applications for voice and video collaboration and host them on varied cloud providers. We are a team of diverse and self-motivated engineers with expertise in different parts of our stack, built to the latest industry standards with open source technologies. We are currently seeking a motivated site reliability engineer who can help on improving various Bloomberg Media Connect products' reliability, stability, and scaling with interest in fault-tolerant distributed system design.

What's in it for you:

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Bloomberg Media Connect, your mission is to improve the platform's reliability, scalability, and performance on cloud-based infrastructure. As part of the team, you will have the opportunity to work alongside engineers with the same goals in mind, and be exposed to many open-source solutions / tools. Our team also plans to upgrade our platform continually to use the latest version of open-source technologies and adopt new ones as needed, so it is a rewarding experience you can explore with us. 

We’ll trust you to:

  • Manage the Infrastructure as code work flows
  • Be part of team and design apps for reliability
  • Ensure observability of the infrastructure and apps
  • Troubleshoot issues when they arise
  • Propose solutions for reducing complexity
  • Own the production infrastructure

You'll need to have:

  • 2+ Experience designing and deploying scalable distributed applications
  • 2+ years experience with Terraform or similar and CM tools like Chef/Ansible/etc
  • Proficient in more than one language have used OO concepts, and written code that is reusable. Prefer Python / Go / Ruby and Bash
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks
  • Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
  • Experience working as SRE engineer with infrastructure as code (immutable infrastructure) approach
  • Experience working with cloud deployments: AWS / Azure / Openstack

We would love to see:

  • Capacity planning for cloud deployments
  • Open source experience is a plus (a well curated blog, upstream accepted contribution or community presence)
  • Experience with networking is a plus (e.g. packet analysis, routing protocols).
  • Experience with media streaming / video conferencing

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
 

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