Senior Software Engineer Storage & Compute Stability
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Job Summary
Senior Software Engineer - Storage & Compute Stability
Location
London
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
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Description & Requirements
About the Team
The Storage and Compute Stability Team is a trusted partner in ensuring the reliability performance and security of Bloombergs cloud storage and compute infrastructure. We operate at the intersection of infrastructure software and services proactively identifying solving and preventing issues before they impact our users. Our focus is on streamlining processes driving automation and serving as a bridge between product teams and stakeholders. This enables Bloombergs engineers to innovate rapidly while maintaining stability at scale. We follow agile practices and thrive in a collaborative environment where code reviews design discussions and brainstorming are part of our daily rhythm. The team is driven by curiosity creativity and a shared passion for building efficient resilient systems.
What Youll Do
- Ensure system reliability and performance by monitoring troubleshooting and optimizing compute and storage services.
- Proactively identify issues and trends to prevent outages reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) and improve overall service availability.
- Collaborate with product owners developers and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable long-term solutions.
- Automate operational processes such as deployments monitoring maintenance and capacity management.
- Develop and maintain runbooks reproducers and documentation to support knowledge-sharing and workflow efficiency.
- Participate in on-call rotations to support critical infrastructure and respond to incidents.
- Contribute to infrastructure lifecycle management including capacity forecasting proactive refresh planning and upgrades.
- Continuously explore opportunities to improve team processes and system stability.
What We Value
- Our work is guided by key principles that define how we operate:
- Expertise We invest in deep technical knowledge to solve complex infrastructure challenges.
- Proactivity We anticipate issues before they occur and design systems to withstand failure.
- Collaboration We build strong relationships with product teams and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Efficiency We reduce manual work through thoughtful automation and streamlined processes.
- Documentation We believe in capturing and sharing knowledge to make systems transparent and maintainable.
- What Makes You Successful
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Self-motivated and autonomous; you take ownership of problems and drive them to resolution.
- Passion for continuous learning and working across a broad spectrum of systems and technologies.
- Comfortable working in an agile environment participating in daily standups sprint planning and code reviews.
- Curious adaptable and eager to work across the entire infrastructure stack.
Skills & Experience
Required
- Proficiency in programming and scripting.
- Experience with monitoring logging and observability tools.
- Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies.
- Solid knowledge of networking operating systems and distributed systems concepts.
- Experience participating in incident response and on-call support for production systems.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Ceph or OpenStack) and related compute/storage services.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform Ansible).
Why Join Us
This isnt just another operations role youll be embedded at the core of Bloombergs infrastructure. Our team spans infrastructure software and services supporting both short-term needs and long-term strategic investments.
Youll have the opportunity to:
- Work on critical infrastructure and help define how it evolves.
- Take on meaningful projects that balance immediate impact with sustainable improvements.
- Join a culture that values innovation automation and continuous improvement.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Bloomberg is the world's primary distributor of financial data and a top news provider of the 21st century. A global information and technology company, we use our dynamic network of data, ideas and analysis to solve difficult problems every day. Our customers around the world rely on ... View more
