Every day, the biggest players in the financial industry depend on Bloomberg applications to
manage their portfolios, execute their trades and analyse the markets. As engineers, we're
building the applications our clients rely on to not just stay informed, but stay ahead of the
market. The applications and infrastructure we build embody the speed, agility and financial data
that make Bloomberg the go-to solution for financial professionals across the globe.
To make sure we satisfy our clients' need for speed as well as stability, we have very high
standards for reliability and scalability. And that's where our SREs come in!
Who are we?
We are a growing SRE team who believes that solving the technology challenges is just one piece
of the puzzle, and that having observable and reliable systems is critical to our success. Ou
r platform distributes and analyses trading data for some of our most critical clients who rely on
our systems to trade in an environment where down-time can have significant financial
consequences. As a growing SRE team, we are also focused on partnering with stakeholders across
engineering and product to ensure that observability and reliability are always part of the
conversation. This year, our projects span from instrumenting our client's user journeys with key
SLIs that reflect user expectations to providing telemetry platforms built on top of logs,
metrics and distributed tracing to make sense of what is actually going on and empower ou
r component teams to catch issues before our clients do.
What we are looking for from you:
We'll expect you to be passionate about using the right tool for the job and setting best
practices for SRE methodologies and tools, and excited by the idea of helping us grow our team as
well as a desire to drive change by promoting a reliability focused approach. We want you not
just to practice SRE principles but advocate for their adoption and help drive an SRE culture
change.
We'll trust you to:
- Examine our system to identify key indicators that reflect client expectations and work with
our engineering and product teams to define SLOs - Establish a high standard of Observability across our system to improve understanding and
visibility of potential issues - Produce tooling for monitoring and debugging with the aim of improving transparency of the
system whilst minimising operational costs through automation - Define standards based on reviews with component teams to ensure that scalability and
performance aspects are considered during application design - Advocate for SRE practices with component teams and enable them to build observable and
reliable products
You'll need to have:
- 3+ years of professional work experience in a software engineer or SRE role
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages including some understanding of either C++,
Python or JavaScript/TypeScript (most of our software is written in C++ and JavaScript, but ou
r SREs often use Python) - An understanding of how to manage the stability of performance sensitive distributed systems
- Familiarity with telemetry approaches (metrics, distributed tracing, logging) and how to
apply them to achieve observability -
If this sounds like you:
Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps
are.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunities employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not
discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation,
age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
This employer is a corporate member of
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