Site Reliability Engineer (329334)

Job description

Regular Full-Time
Samsung Electronics America ,Mountain View California

May 22, 2018
General Description
Who we are Our vision is what your eyes see. Here at Samsung, we've successfully changed the way TV sets were viewed - once hunky, bulky sets that displayed dull colors to attractive, thin and sleek panels that captivate viewers with vibrant colors and life-like realism. We're at it again - with a new endeavor - changing the way you interact with Smart-TVs. As we revolutionize the TV viewing experience once again, we want to do the same for the way you interact with the next generation of our products and services. We're putting together a team of world-class engineers that would help us make this vision a reality. If you're ready to take on this challenge and see your work dazzle millions of users, we'd love to hear from you!
Company Information
Since being established in 1969, Samsung Electronics has grown into one of the world's leading technology companies and has become recognized as one of the top 10 global brands. Samsung is currently ranked #2 on Forbes' “Most Reputable Tech Companies” for 2016 and #6 on Interbrand's "Best Global Brands” list for 2017.Our network extends across the world, and Samsung takes great pride in the creativity and diversity of its talented people, who drive our growth. As a result of our commitment to innovation and unique design, the Samsung organization is one of the most decorated brands in the electronics industry. Headquartered in Ridgefield Park, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA) is a recognized innovative leader in consumer electronics, mobile devices and enterprise solutions. A wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SEA is pushing beyond the limits of today's technology and providing consumers and organizations with a portfolio of groundbreaking products in appliances, home entertainment, Internet of Things, mobile computing, smartphones, virtual reality, wireless infrastructure and wearables, in addition to offering leading content and services related to mobile payments, 360-degree VR video, customer support and more. Samsung is a pioneering leader in smartphones and HDTVs in the U.S. and one of America's fastest growing home appliance brands. Samsung's philosophy is based on our strong determination for growth, perpetual innovation and responsibility to corporate citizenship. As part of our Samsung Gives philanthropic platform, we offer companywide Days of Service, a volunteer time off program, and an employee giving match program, so our employees can support causes that are closest to their hearts and choose how they want to give back. Since 2002, Samsung has provided more than $46 million to more than 1,000 public schools and community organizations in the United States through its many citizenship initiatives, including the STEAM-education based Solve for Tomorrow Contest. At Samsung we work hard – every day. It is a fast-paced and challenging work environment, and we are a nimble team that constantly pushes ourselves to be the best. If you have energy, passion, dedication and drive, and you thrive in a fast-paced workplace, the rewards at Samsung are many. Apply today and find out why LinkedIn ranked us as one of North America's Most InDemand Employers in 2015. Samsung Electronics America provides Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Necessary Skills / Attributes
The Samsung Site Reliability Engineer is a software engineer responsible for ensuring that the Samsung platform's services are designed, implemented, deployed, and operated such that they are highly available, highly performing, and scalable. The ideal candidate for the Site Reliability Engineer position typically self-identifies as a "hacker", who is both a "jack of all trades" as well as possesses deep knowledge in multiple areas of software development, Linux/Unix systems administration, networking, internet protocols, databases, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate has a mix of software development and infrastructure operations skills, and approaches infrastructure operations from the perspective of a software engineer. You'll be working in a small team of SREs, supporting a medium-sized team of software engineers working on building the next generation of Samsung administrative interfaces, ad decisioning, delivery, data processing and analytics systems. Relevant industry experience is important, but ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude. Task Summary • Co-architect new services, including failure tolerance and self-healing by-design, as well as establishing clear scaling-out paths • Evaluating and benchmarking new solutions, establishing capacity and growth plans • Implementing deployment and configuration strategies for new services, including provisioning resources, and go-live • Administration of services, whether built in-house or from external vendors • Continual optimization of services on all layers (hardware, software) for high performance • Continual improvement of internal services for ease of packaging, configuration and deployment • Monitoring of all critical services, sharing pager duty, troubleshooting and addressing problems as they arise (including any needed changes in code, topology, resources, or configuration) • Backups/DR implementation, plans, documentation and exercises • Co-own technical relationships with several service providers and vendors Qualifications and Skills • Full competency in at least 1 software development language (Java, Erlang, C/C++, Ruby) • Full competency in at least 1 supporting language (Bash, SQL) • Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills, including strong knowledge of how the various components work (kernel, CPU, memory, disk, network) • Thorough understanding of networking protocols that make the internet work (Ethernet, IP, DNS, TCP and UDP, HTTP, TLS) • Experience with source control system, ideally Git • Experience with database systems and data pipelines (batch, real-time & hybrid) • Familiarity with configuration management systems, containers, VMs • Familiarity with distributed multi-datacenter 24/7 web systems • You have a track record of making things better and leading solutions that remove technical pain points and facilitate growth • You enjoy working with others who are smart and passionate about building useful, reliable, performant products • You can balance moving fast with breaking things, and you make sure you know how to fix them when they do break