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SRE Engineer

Balin Technologies LLCSunnyvale, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 17 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Title: SRE Engineer
Location: We have two locations: Sunnyvale, CA AND San Jose CA(Onsite)
  • You will engage in incident response drills, post-mortems, and root cause analysis sessions to learn from past issues and prevent future ones.
  • Each morning starts with a structured review of overnight alerts and system performance metrics - identifying any anomalies, triaging what needs attention.
  • You will collaborate with your team in a morning stand-up meeting to discuss ongoing projects, recent incidents, and priorities for the day..
  • Your tasks will include automating routine processes, analyzing system logs, and developing tools to enhance our monitoring capabilities.
  • You\''ll spend part of your day working closely with software engineers, advising on best practices for resilient code and reviewing changes before deployment.
  • Throughout the day, your focus is on maintaining high SLIs and SLOs, ensuring that our infrastructure remains robust and reliable for our customers.
  • By days end, you will document your work, share insights with your team, and plan for the next days challenges, always with a customer-centric mindset.
 
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
  • Strong experience with architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling of new and current systems.
  • Experience leading and commanding incidents, including driving root cause analysis, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring follow-through on corrective actions.
  • Experience building observability from the ground up — defining SLOs/SLIs, closing monitoring gaps, and implementing alerting strategies that catch failures before customers do.
  • Proficiency in Linux kernel internals, with exposure to scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystem.
  • Experience writing high quality code with at least one programming language (Python, Go, or similar).
  • Experience with system-level debugging, including kdump, and kernel panic analysis..
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes) and CI/CD practices (GitLab CI, AWX, etc.) for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure..
  • Experience with TCP/IP and network programming.
  • Experience with distributed storage systems and understanding of one or more of object, block, and file storage paradigms..
  • Hardware and GPU troubleshooting experience (nice to have).
  • Exposure to OVN/OVS-based networking stack (nice to have).
  • Strong communication skills.

Skills

TCP/IP
Ansible
GitLab CI
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform

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