Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data & Analytics
Job Location:
Irvine, CA - USA
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Job Summary
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& Online ProductsThisSeniorSite Reliability Engineerrole is on our Data & Analytics team partnering with data analytics ML and platform engineering to improve the reliability scalability and performance of large-scale data platforms analytics pipelines ML training pipelines and inference services.
In addition to core SRE responsibilities this role will build operational and automation tooling that reduces toil speeds up issue resolution and improves engineering velocity. This includes contributing to internal platform services such as shared tooling data integrations and access-control patterns used across Blizzard.
The ideal candidate is a production-minded SRE or platformengineer who iscomfortable operating critical systems writing software and building tools that improve engineering efficiency without compromising reliability.
This role is open to candidates based in Irvine CA or Albany NY (hybrid or on-site) as well as fully remote candidates.
Responsibilities
Participate in an on-call rotation and drive incidents to resolution
Lead blameless postmortems andidentifysystemic reliability improvements
Partner with data ML and platform teams to improve batch streaming training and inference workloads
Support ML training pipelines and inference services including GPU workloads
Help define how data and ML services run on Kubernetes
Design andbuild automation and operational tooling (e.g. workflows diagnostic tooling runbooks) to reduce on-call burden
Build and evolve centralized platform services including shared tooling data integrations and access controls
Diagnose and resolve reliability performance and cost issues across distributed systems
Champion automation documentation and practices that reduce toil
Maintaininfrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles
Improve CI/CD andGitOpsworkflows (Jenkins GitHub ActionsArgoCD)
Operate and improve containerized services on Kubernetes
Define and measure reliability using SLIs SLOs and error budgets
Run load tests capacity modeling and production validation
Build internal tools and paved paths that help teamsoperatesafely and efficiently
MinimumRequirements
Experienceoperatingreliable distributed systems in SRE platform or similar roles
Experience with data analytics ML or large-scale distributed workloads
Strong knowledge of Linux containers Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
Experience building automation or internal tools (Python Go shell etc.)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
Experience with CI/CD orGitOpssystems (e.g. Jenkins GitHub ActionsArgoCD)
Familiarity with observability (metrics logs traces alerting incident response)
Solid understanding of SRE concepts (SLIs SLOs error budgets postmortems)
Experience using modern development and automation practices to improve reliability and efficiency
Experiencebuilding internal tooling automation or developer productivity systems
Strong communicationskills with technical and cross-functional partners
Bonus Points
Experience with data and ML systems (training pipelines model serving GPU workloads)
Experience with distributed systems and messaging (Kafka Pub/Sub)
Experience working in Kubernetes-based environments
Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus Grafana)
Experience operating systems in cloud environments (GCP AWS)
Your Platform
Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft Overwatch Diablo and StarCraft Blizzard Entertainment Inc. () a division of Activision Blizzard which wasacquiredby Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years witha track recordthat includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Xbox PlayStation Nintendo Switch iOS and Android.
Our World
Activision Blizzard Inc. is one of the worlds largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of mediatechnologyand entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty World of Warcraft Overwatch Diablo Candy Crushand Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrivein order toconnect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physicalemotionaland financial well-being forEvery World-wevegot our employees covered!
The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all the qualifications Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonableassistanceto individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position please email your request to General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminateon the basis ofrace religion color national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age marital status veteran status or disability status among other characteristics.
Rewards
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical dental vision health savings account or health reimbursement account healthcare spending accounts dependent care spending accounts life and AD&D insurance disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match tuition reimbursement charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation paid sick time floating holidays compassion and bereavement leaves parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs fitness programs free and discounted games and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability legal service ID protection rental insurance and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting the U.S. the standard base pay range for this role is $102800.00 - $190204.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately your specific range and offer will be based on several factors including relevant experience performance and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this roles range details for your local geography during the hiring addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates new hire compensation is negotiable.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
