Wajdi Alkayal
Opportunity Overview
Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems. The main goals are to create scalable and highly reliable software systems.
The Software Reliability Engineer Intern will be a part of a team working on a variety of software engineering tasks to create and maintain scalable solutions and reliable software systems for our autonomous truck platform. You will have an opportunity to impact backend services such as fleet monitoring, machine learning and continuous integration among others.
Role Responsibilities
- Collaborate with others to define and execute on our SRE vision
- Continuously improve our process for detecting, responding to, and learning from production incidents
- Provide visibility into availability and performance metrics
- Reclaim Engineering time by substituting traditionally laborious human tasks with the automation of infrastructure, configuration, and delivery
- Optimize tools and processes
- Understand, deploy and provide technical support for infrastructure systems
- Engage in system design and development from the perspective of SRE
- Responsible for identifying and mitigating real and potential system problems and issues
- Ensure and improve security, stability, and scalability by creating new code and scripting
- Monitor and maintain enterprise-level data centers
- Handle and debug complex server and service-related issues
- Help service owners identify and instrument Service Level Objectives and design alerts that follow best practices
- Build tools and mechanisms that enable engineers to deploy and test their services in production
- Facilitate blameless postmortems and drive effective action items
- Help teams with automating tedious tasks and enable them to quickly launch new services.
- Work with service owners to have a proactive approach to designing tests, observing results and creating fixes for complex failure scenarios.
Experience & Skills Required
- Enrolled in a MS program in Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science
- A strong foundation of Linux Systems Engineering and Automation.
- Fluent with one or more programming languages such as Go, Python or Java
- Deep understandings of Cloud-based (i.e. AWS, Azure, etc.) services and API
- Experience with container-based architecture, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Streaming and Database technologies such as Postgres, Kafka, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, etc.
- Able to debug complex problems across the whole stack
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across technical teams
- A passion and habit for measuring key data points
Intern Perks
- Work with world class AI Engineers
- Shape the landscape of autonomous driving
- Work on significantly important and mission critical projects
- Extensive individual support through WMK's Mentorship Program
- Competitive salary
- High full-time employment return rates after completion of Internship Program
- Gym membership reimbursement
- Monthly team building budget
- Onsite Perks (These perks will only be applicable if the internship is onsite)
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner served every day
- Full kitchens on every floor with unlimited snacks, drinks, special treats, fruits, meals, and more
WMK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not discriminate in employment and personnel practices on the basis of race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above-listed items.
