Senior Software Engineer- Core Infrastructure
Bloomberg
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Jan 10, 2025
The role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Engineer to join our team, with a strong background in Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and Linux/OS and a general interest in distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have experience operating Kubernetes on-premise at scale, as well as expertise in networking, security, and observability. This role will be responsible for designing, implementing, and developing automation to maintain our infrastructure and Kubernetes environments, ensuring high uptime, scalability, and security.
We'll trust you to:
- Design, build, and maintain highly reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure platforms that support our engineering teams and business needs.
- Participate in system design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions
- Ensure code quality through standard methodologies, code reviews, and alignment to clean code principles
- To produce clear and consumable documentation for a wide audience
- Communicate effectively across diverse teams
- Be willing to participate in on-call rotations as arranged
- Be a self starter, manage priorities, and work independently
- Stay up-to-date with the latest infrastructure technologies, and industry standard processes, and evaluate their potential impact on existing and future solutions
Who you are:
- Hold yourself to high standard
- Exude our ambitious, collaborative, and empathetic values
- A self-starter mentality with an eagerness to solve previously unsolved problems
- Excellent collaboration skills and are open to giving and receiving critical feedback across teams
- Scalability and reliability are hardwired into your DNA
- You have publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics
What's in it for you?
- A unique opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing team in one of the most exciting engineering teams in Bloomberg.
- An inclusive and supportive work culture that fosters learning and growth.
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
You'll need to have:
- 4+ years of software development proficiency in Golang and Python
- BA, BS, MS, PHD, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
- Ability to develop and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting systems and incident management using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL and other observability stacks
- Ability to optimize, scale, and secure our infrastructure and Kubernetes environments, using deep Kubernetes and cloud platform experience
- Ability to Implement and maintain network policies and security practices to ensure the integrity of our infrastructure and Kubernetes environments
- Experience with Etcd, Calico, and other common CNIs like Cilium
- Good Understanding of Kubernetes design patterns (operators, helm charts, kustomize, etc)
- Experience with Kubernetes extensions (device-plugins, CRD, CNIs, and CSIs)
We'd love to see:
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation for infrastructure as code
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with BGP ECMP, including its configuration and troubleshooting
- Experience with developing and maintaining eBPF programs for security, network monitoring, and observability