Senior Software Engineer

Objective:
The SRE team is rapidly growing and facing a significant backlog. Wei is looking to bring on a highly experienced software engineer contractor to support their automation projects. The contractor will support an automation initiative within the SRE team.

Key Points Discussed:

• Pay Rate:
  The approved budget is up to USD BR/hour pay rate.

• Location:
  The team is open to fully remote candidates, located anywhere in the US with no time zone preference.
  Please note, this position is also open in Canada (VNDLY 2067) - but it is for the same, single headcount. There is only 1 opening on the team - they are just open to candidates anywhere in the US or Canada.

• Candidate Evaluation Preferences:

  • Candidates should ideally have 4+ years of experience.

  • Live technical interviews are preferred over take-home assignments to avoid the risk of AI-assisted or outsourced answers.

  • Wei is interested in having candidates present previous projects and, if possible, share GitHub links or prior work samples in advance.

  • Resumes alone are becoming unreliable due to AI-generated content-seeing actual work helps validate experience.

• Interview Scheduling Process:

  • Wei prefers camera-on interviews to better assess engagement and authenticity.

  • Feedback is essential to adjust the candidate search as needed.

• Contract Length:
  This is a 4-month contract to start, with potential to extend/convert (depending on performance and business needs/approval of permanent headcount).

Additional Notes:

• Jessica confirmed that vetted, IT-specialized vendors will pre-screen candidates to ensure they meet technical expectations before reaching Wei. Wei is depending on your judgment to present the best candidates.

• He appreciated the added step of reviewing work samples ahead of interviews.
  
  Job Description

  At ResMed, we're transforming lives with every breath-enhancing patient well-being, slowing the progression of chronic diseases, and reducing healthcare costs. To achieve this mission, our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team plays a vital role in ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency of ResMed's applications across the organization. This includes automating operational tasks, managing incident response, defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs, and continuously improving system reliability through modern engineering practices and a proactive mindset.

  Our SRE Automation team is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join us. This role is critical in helping us scale our automation efforts, improve system reliability, and reduce operational overhead. You will work closely with SRE Engineers, development teams, and infrastructure teams to build and maintain SRE Observability Automation tools.

  Let's talk about Responsibilities

  • Establish and evangelize best practices and patterns for modern API design and developer experience.

  • Contribute to best-in-class documentation, tutorials, code libraries, sample code, and other developer collateral.

  • Participate in or lead model, architecture, API, design, documentation, and code reviews as appropriate to ensure high quality, functional API implementations.

  • Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions to support SRE operations.

  • Dynamically build and optimize Datadog monitors, SLI/SLO, observability dashboards and alerts.

  • Develop and maintain infrastructure and CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions.

  • Write clean, efficient, and scalable code in Python.

  • Design and optimize queries, schemas, and data flows in relational databases.

  • Develop and maintain container-based microservices, ensuring scalability and reliability.

  
  Must to Have:

  • Degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent experience.

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience.

  • Proven expertise in building scalable web services using Python and FastAPI.

  • In-depth understanding of the API life cycle, and API Design First development.

  • Demonstrated, in-depth experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions

  • Strong working knowledge of core AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Redis, IAM, CloudWatch, and Lambda

  • Experience working within an Agile software development process (e.g., Scrum).

  • Proficient in working with Docker containers and experienced in supporting applications deployed in Kubernetes environments.

  • Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).

  • Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.

  • Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to communicate and operate effectively in a collaborative, global environment.

  Nice to Have:

  • Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.

  • Prior experience in a DevOps or SRE-focused role.

  • Demonstrated proficiency using AI-powered coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Augment, etc.) as an integral part of the development workflow.

  • Skilled in modern web development using React, with hands-on experience in JavaScript and/or TypeScript.

  • Understanding and hands-on experience with Chaos Engineering and Chaos Testing practices, especially using AWS Fault Injection Simulator

  Let's talk about what you can expect:

  • A supportive environment that focuses on people development and best practices.

  • Opportunity to design, influence and be innovative.

  • Be supported both inside and outside of the work environment.

  • The opportunity to build something meaningful and see a direct impact on people's lives.

  Joining us is more than saying "yes" to making the world a healthier place. It's discovering a career that's challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.