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Site Reliability Engineer - Index Engineering

Location: New York

Business Area: Engineering and CTO

Ref #: 10040969

The Bloomberg Indices Reliability Engineering team is an integral part of a rapidly growing index business within Bloomberg. We are responsible for the smooth operation of a diverse range of systems serving world leading benchmark and tradable index products. These indices underpin trillions of dollars of trades and assets under management, and hundreds of clients rely on them daily to inform critical business decisions. With this level of global impact, the reliability, stability, and scalability of this platform is key to our success. Our team is distributed across New York and London, and we work together to ensure a consistent and seamless platform for our clients.

This is a great opportunity to join a team of reliability engineers on the journey to build, support, monitor, configure and scale our index production systems. As our systems grow, our team is responsible for ensuring that we have the tools and architecture in place to monitor and alarm when service levels are breached. Additionally, our team aims to automate processes and operations wherever possible to improve quality, consistency and scalability of our systems. Communication and collaboration are key for our team who interact with engineers, product managers and operations teams.

• We are looking for engineers with an aptitude for analytical and creative problem solving.
• You can dive into the details of complex issues quickly, and you're excited to harness the power of automation to manage the stability, availability, and scale of our incredibly complex technology infrastructure.
• You're passionate about reliability and automation, and don't shy away from a challenge.
• You're excited by the opportunity to help drive a culture of quality and reliability across our product and company.

• Use your technical skills and experience to ensure the reliability of our systems.
• Help expand the observability of these systems to improve their reliability.
• Quickly and continuously grow in your technical knowledge.
• Contribute to the team, whether pair programming or peer reviewing or collaborating with the engineering, product or operations teams to find the best solutions.
• Be an enthusiastic agile practitioner, helping us improve and refine our approach to ensure we deliver quality indices in a predictable manner.

• 4+ years working with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.).
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience.
• An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.
• Prior contributions to system design and architecture and scaling fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Honest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, partners and management.

• Experience building monitoring systems and bringing transparency to running systems.
• A desire to learn new technologies and apply them where appropriate to improve the quality of our software, stability and processes.
• Experience with Chef or other configuration management tools.

Salary Range: 160###-####00 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.