PitchBook Data

Sr.SiteReliabilityEngineer

$175–200k Seattle, Washington, United States
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at PitchBook Data. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Kubernetes, Observability, Cloud-native. Create and evolve systems. Automatically run products”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Problem solvers; Troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

On-call support, 24/7 response team, Authorized to work in US, No visa sponsorship

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of experience building and maintaining Linux/UNIX-based systems, 5+ years of experience in a Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure role, Experience owning operational reliability, scalability, recoverability, Experience performing operational activities, Experience with distributed, scalable microservices, Experience with event-driven architectures, Experience with data storage, replication, caching, and search technologies, Experience with PostgreSQL, Experience with MySQL, Experience with MS SQL Server, Experience with Amazon RDS, Experience with GCP CloudSQL, Experience with Redis, Experience with Elasticsearch, Experience with Lucene/Solr, Experience with Clean Architecture, Experience with cloud-native deployment patterns, Experience building internal tools, Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with Java (Spring Boot), Experience with observability, Experience with event-driven architecture, Experience with Claude Code plugins, Experience with MCP servers, Bachelor's in Computer Science, Bachelor's in Software Engineering, Bachelor's in related field

Nice to Have

Master's preferred

What You'll Do.

Create and evolve systems

Automatically run products

Automatically run services

Define service level objectives

Build systems to achieve objectives

Deploy production systems

Manage production systems

Maintain production systems

Operate large-scale services

Monitor large-scale services

Incorporate observability tools

Perform incident management

Conduct root cause analyses

Eliminate single points of failure

Build reliability into infrastructure

Build redundancy into infrastructure

Establish recoverability

Build and manage system subsets

Build best practices for infrastructure-as-code

Exemplify quality controls

Mentor Site Reliability Engineers

Train Site Reliability Engineers

Mentor platform engineers

Train platform engineers

Mentor software engineers

Train software engineers

Build and maintain internal platform services

Build and maintain Kubernetes operators

Build and maintain observability tooling

Design developer experience tooling

Deliver developer experience tooling

Design AI-leveraged workflows

Deliver AI-leveraged workflows

Establish service level objectives

Establish error budgets

Establish service level indicators

Build recoverability into services

Build recoverability into systems

Incorporate multi-AZ multi-regionality

Establish clustering techniques

Establish load balancing techniques

Build observability systems

Build observability services

Create alerting for fault identification

Build dashboards for metrics

Operate services' reliability

Improve services' reliability

Operate services' scalability

Improve services' scalability

Operate services' performance

Improve services' performance

Operate services' security

Improve services' security

Operate services' uptime

Improve services' uptime

Learn cloud-managed services

Participate in application of Agile

Participate in application of Lean

Participate in application of fast flow

Own tasks in process automation

Support company vision

Support company values

Role model desired behaviors

Encourage desired behaviors

Participate in company initiatives

Participate in company projects

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with developers; Collaborate with colleagues; Work closely with partners; Cross-functional teams; Group leadership

Communication Scope

Communicate effectively

Process & Methodology

Agile, Lean

Full Job Description

At PitchBook, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company. Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence. If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you. About the Role: As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation. We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other’s words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth, and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us! As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in PitchBook’s engineering division, you will be creating and evolving systems to automatically run our suite of products and services reliably and consistently. As part of a team of site reliability engineers and platform engineers and

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