Senior Software Engineer/SRE - Kubernetes for Advanced Compute

Join Our Team

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer/SRE to join our team at Bloomberg, where you will be instrumental in building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our core data services. This includes Bloomberg’s data science and machine learning platform, search infrastructure, and more. Our work spans both software and hardware, and the scale is extensive.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer/SRE, you will have the opportunity to make key technical decisions that will shape the future of data and analytics infrastructure. You will apply your existing experience while gaining new skills in Kubernetes, containerization, GPUs, data science, and distributed database systems. Your solutions will drive new functionality within the Bloomberg Terminal and other client interfaces, directly influencing financial decisions worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and automate new solutions centered around the Kubernetes container orchestration platform and its ecosystem.
• Maintain configuration and robustness of systems.
• Analyze performance, metric placement, interpretation, and capacity planning.
• Solve and debug runtime issues with software and hardware.
• Perform OS and hardware level optimizations.
• Interact with platform developers to understand and validate their workflows, requirements, application performance, and application resilience.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of programming experience with an object-oriented programming language (Python, Go, Java, or Ruby).
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field of study, or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of systems configuration and automation experience (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack).
• 2+ years of Linux systems experience (Ubuntu/Debian preferred).
• Strong familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment methodologies.
• Proven experience building and scaling critically important, elastic, load-distributed, and high-throughput systems.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with networking (e.g., packet analysis, routing protocols).
• Open source experience (e.g., a well-curated blog, upstream accepted contribution, or community presence).
• Private and public cloud experience (OpenStack, AWS, GCP).

Our Commitment to Open Source

This new team will extensively use Open Source Software. We are committed to upstreaming features we develop within Kubernetes and its ecosystem. Whether pushing bug-fixes upstream, developing new features, giving presentations at conferences/meetups, or collaborating with industry leaders, open source will be at the heart of this team.

Interview Process

We believe interviewing is a two-way street. It's a way for us to get to know you and your skills, and also a way for you to learn more about the team, our technical challenges, and what you'd be working on. The content of each interview round will be tailored to the role and your background.

If you have any questions or need accommodations to be successful, please let us know!

We have many opportunities in Engineering, and it is important to us that your skills and experience align best with the team you are interviewing with. Your application will be considered for all of our current vacancies in Engineering at the first stage of the interview process.