Data Reliability Engineer

As a Data Reliability Engineer (Data SRE), you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data platforms. This position is vital for our data platform team and overall data strategy, as it combines the responsibilities of maintaining high availability and operational excellence with optimizing data workflows and infrastructure as we head towards our cloud modernization journey.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of data and reliability engineering, ensuring our systems are robust, efficient, and scalable while also enabling seamless data processing and analytics. You will be crucial in maintaining the reliability of our data pipelines and infrastructure, and your contributions will directly impact the success of our data-driven decision-making processes.

Why This Role Matters:

In our data-driven organization, the Data Reliability Engineer (Data SRE) ensures that our data infrastructure remains robust, scalable, and performant. This role is essential for maintaining the reliability of our data systems, which are critical for driving business insights and decisions. By blending SRE and data expertise, you will directly contribute to the efficiency of our data pipelines and the overall success of our data strategy.

Job Responsibilities 

• Automate data tasks on GCP/AWS
• Work with data domain owners,  and other stakeholders to ensure that data is consumed effectively on the data platform.
• Design, build, secure and maintain data infrastructure, including data pipelines, databases, data warehouses, and data processing platforms on GCP/AWS.
• Measure and monitor the quality of data on data platforms.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues in data systems. Respond to incidents promptly to minimize downtime and data loss.
• Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline data operations and make them scalable to accommodate growing data volumes and user traffic.
• Optimize data systems to ensure efficient data processing, reduce latency, and improve overall system performance.
• Collaborate with data and infrastructure teams to forecast data growth and plan for future capacity requirements.
• Ensure data security and compliance with data protection regulations. Implement best practices for data access controls and encryption.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to understand data requirements, troubleshoot issues, and support data-driven initiatives.
• Continuously assess and improve data infrastructure and data processes to enhance reliability, efficiency, and performance.
• Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation related to data systems, configurations, and standard operating procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Data Site Reliability Engineer or a similar role, with a strong focus on data infrastructure management.
• 2+ years of experience in data engineering or SRE on GCP/AWS platform.
• Good understanding of SRE practice.
• Proficiency in data technologies, such as relational databases, data warehousing, big data platforms , data streaming , and cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Strong programming skills in languages like Python, Java, with experience in automation and scripting.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with data governance, data security, systems manager,  and compliance best practices on GCP and AWS.
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies and best practices, including version control (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong background in cloud computing and data-Intensive applications and services, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
• Experience with data quality assurance and testing on GCP and AWS.
• Strong understanding of logging and monitoring using tools such as Splunk, DataDog, Cloud Watch, Grafana, etc.

About Brightcove 

Brightcove is a diverse, global team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping organizations reach their audiences in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. 

Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and we have built a culture that values authenticity, individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to harness the incredible power of video and create an environment where you will want to grow, stay and thrive. Bottom line: We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as #oneteam.

WORKING AT BRIGHTCOVE 

We strive to provide our employees with an environment where they can do their best work and be their best selves. This includes a focus on our employees’ work experience, actively creating a culture where inclusion and growth are at the center, and hiring, recognizing, promoting employees who are committed to living and breathing these same ideals. We value collaboration, creativity, work/life balance, professional growth and creating an empowering space for open communication. Whether you’re in one of our offices around the world or working remotely you have plenty of opportunities to meet colleagues and celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, Pride of Brightcove, Parents of Brightcove … and more to come!

We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Brightcove embraces diversity and seeks candidates who support persons of all identities and backgrounds. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply. If you need any accommodations for your interview, please email [email protected]. 

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