Site Reliability Engineer - Data, Cloud & Developer

Role Overview

Blackstone’s Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for improving the reliability of systems and services to meet the needs of the business. This is achieved through collaboration with development and engineering teams to leverage SRE practices and principles. You will identify and solve new problems as they arise, deploy and maintain observability systems and pipelines, enhance operations and support for services and platforms, and pursue emerging opportunities for efficiency and business value.

The position involves the selection, implementation, and maintenance of key observability tooling and ongoing evaluation of the firm's needs in observability, monitoring, alerting, resilience, and recovery.

• Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm
• Incorporate observability standards into code and deployment pipelines
• Evolve the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams
• Partner with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency
• Assist developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants
• Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners
• Ensure monitoring and alerting reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations
• Implement strategic observability tools and work to control overhead in maintenance and cost
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact
• Use automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention
• Foster a blameless team culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting

• 5+ years of professional experience with Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, Dev Ops Engineering, or Platform Engineering
• Automation script‑writing skills and effective code troubleshooting (Python, C#, Typescript, etc.)
• Effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, OpenAI)
• Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience)
• Configuration‑as‑code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling experience (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI)
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and container schedulers, including AWS ECS & EKS
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux and Windows, and networking experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)
• Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during post‑mortems
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Curiosity and motivation to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownership

Expected annual base salary range: $140,000 – $225,000. Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components, including but not limited to experience, skills, and job location. For roles located outside the U.S., the posted salary bands are not applicable; compensation follows local market comparables.

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and FSA
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Discretionary bonuses
• Potential equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive; additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position and may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client‑facing role and/or engaged in activities such as:

• Attending client meetings where you discuss Blackstone products and/or client questions
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients
• Supervising or training securities‑licensed employees
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or contributing information for marketing materials

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