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Software Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
- DepartmentProduct Development and Operations
- LocationBrazil - Sao Paulo
- Location TypeRemote
Location & Travel
- The role is currently remote. We will be opening an office in Campinas, SP, in the next year to two years and when we do there will be an expectation to come into the office quarterly for various team meetings.
What You'll do
- Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot and solve problems, reducing customer impact.
- Develop automated runbooks and implement measures to handle issues proactively.
- Apply sound engineering principles and mature automation to our operating environments.
- Monitor, maintain, and enhance the reliability and performance of applications on our Guidewire Cloud Platform.
- Leverage your automation and software engineering expertise to optimize systems and eliminate toil.
- Document and examine incidents to improve processes and continuously prevent future occurrences.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and best practices in site reliability engineering.
- Contribute to a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience as an SRE or similar role, with a track record of improving system reliability
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems and devise effective solutions
- Excellent collaboration and communication abilities to work cross-functionally and clearly document processes
- Experience with automation, monitoring, and performance optimization tools and techniques
- Dedication to maximizing uptime, scalability, and delivering an exceptional end-user experience
- A passion for technology and a strong desire to continuously learn and grow your skills
- Alignment with Guidewire's mission to leverage technology to help protect and support others
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience leveraging application performance monitoring (APM) and telemetry tools to troubleshoot and diagnose problems
- Proven experience triaging and debugging distributed systems on cloud infrastructure
- Proven experience in designing and engineering CI/CD pipelines within Kubernetes (K8S) and legacy ecosystems
- Proven experience in designing and engineering monitors, dashboards, and synthetic transactions in Datadog
- Proven experience in building, deploying, and running scalable infrastructure within AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems using Terraform and other cloud-native approaches
- Proven experience in managing infrastructure configuration at scale using multiple approaches and/or tools such as GitOps, Puppet, or Ansible
- Good understanding of AWS cloud networking and security with hands-on experience remediating infrastructure vulnerabilities at scale
- Good understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets
- Comfortable with Linux system administration, with the ability to program/script using Python, Go, Java, shell, or equivalent
- Participate in mandatory on-call rotations to ensure service availability and reliability, responding to incidents and alerts outside regular hours, including weekends and holidays. Candidates must be willing and able to fulfill this critical responsibility.
Preferred Skills
- SRE certified in multiple categories
- AWS certified in multiple categories
- Proficiency with SQL, database administration, data pipelines, performance tuning, and schema design
- Proficiency with multiple pipelining tools such as TeamCity, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions
- Familiarity with open-source distributed data processing frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, AWS Redshift, etc.
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
The perks. The rewards. The good stuff.
We’re proud to shout about our awesome benefits packages. Holistic wellness is a big deal for us. We offer everything you need to support your work and, most importantly, your work-life balance. We’re committed to helping you be the best version of yourself. Inside and outside of work.
FINANCIAL
Receive market-competitive pay and incentive programs—because you deserve it! To help future-proof your income, we offer generous support through retirement savings plans.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Keep your physical and emotional health in tip-top shape with health insurance for you and your family, an employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, and access to wellness resources.
FLEXIBLE WORKING
Work in an environment where you’ll have the freedom and trust to make an impact, with time for your life outside of work.
DOWNTIME
Relax and kick back through our generous paid time-off programs. Make a difference in your community with three volunteer days each year. Take your own personal day of rest with My Day. We also offer ample paid leave for all new parents.
CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT
We encourage self-directed learning, giving you every chance to become a better version of yourself, both professionally and personally. At Guidewire, lifelong learning is here for the taking.
CAREER MOBILITY
Your career opportunities are only limited by your own imagination. Guidewire’s community is filled with chances to expand your horizons across any of our teams or worldwide locations.