Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block

Melbourne

6 days ago

Melbourne

6 days ago

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to proactively improve platform reliability. This remote role involves building distributed platforms, AI-driven automation, and incident management. Requires 5+ years of software development and production oncall experience.

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Remote

Internship

Entry Level

Kotlin

Java (11+)

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, AU

Work Model

Remote

Experience Required

5 years

Employment Type

Internship

Experience Level

Not Applicable

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

KotlinJava (11+)HTTPJSONgRPCProtocol BuffersMySQLVitessDynamoDBDataDog

Soft Skills

curiosityautonomyaccountabilitydrive to root causetechnical initiativeleadership

Tools (Must-have)

CI/CDLaunchDarklyTerraformKubernetesIstioEnvoyAmazon Web Services

Key Responsibilities

•Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability
•Work on team goals that encompass reliability for the entire company
•Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and organizations
•Triage, coordinate, and lead stabilization of sev 0–1 incidents
•Serve as primary oncall, maintaining structured escalation paths and exercising leadership escalation
•Drive platform-wide reliability improvements, shared operational tooling, and deploy-safety patterns
•Use AI-driven systems to improve signal detection, reduce noise, and accelerate root cause analysis
•Design and implement safe deployment patterns (progressive delivery, automated rollback, guardrails)
•Leverage and improve AI-driven tooling and automation for observability and incident detection
•Participate in primary platform oncall supporting Tier 0 services

SeniorSite Reliability EngineerSREKotlinKubernetesAWSIncident ManagementAI-driven automationRemoteFinancial Services

Key Responsibilities

•Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability

•Work on team goals that encompass reliability for the entire company

•Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and organizations

•Triage, coordinate, and lead stabilization of sev 0–1 incidents

•Serve as primary oncall, maintaining structured escalation paths and exercising leadership escalation

•Drive platform-wide reliability improvements, shared operational tooling, and deploy-safety patterns

•Use AI-driven systems to improve signal detection, reduce noise, and accelerate root cause analysis

•Design and implement safe deployment patterns (progressive delivery, automated rollback, guardrails)

•Leverage and improve AI-driven tooling and automation for observability and incident detection

•Participate in primary platform oncall supporting Tier 0 services