Sr. Site Reliability Engineer Seattle, Washington

At Pitch Book, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, Pitch Book is the place for you.

As part of the Product and Engineering team, you will be a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Pitch Book’s engineering division. You will build and evolve systems to automatically run our suite of products and services reliably and consistently. You will work collaboratively with site reliability engineers, platform engineers, and developers to define and achieve service level objectives (SLOs), monitor and manage large‑scale distributed services with complex data integrations, and build reliability and redundancy into our infrastructure.

• Build and maintain Linux/UNIX-based systems in cloud environments (preferably GCP & AWS).
• Define and enforce service level objectives (SLOs) and build systems to meet those objectives.
• Use observability tools (monitoring, telemetry, tracing, alerting) to perform incident management and root‑cause analysis.
• Eliminate single points of failure and build redundancy into infrastructure.
• Establish and test recoverability, including backups, disaster recovery, and failover.
• Mentor and train other SREs, platform engineers, and software engineers on reliability topics.
• Participate in 24/7 on‑call response as part of the response team.
• Automate operational activities including batch processing, system backups, maintenance, and monitoring.
• Collaborate across locations to improve system reliability and performance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related (Master’s preferred).
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining Linux/UNIX-based systems, primarily in cloud environments (preferably GCP & AWS).
• 5+ years of experience in a Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, or infrastructure role, using infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef).
• 2+ years of experience with containers and orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure systems, networking, and security in a cloud environment.
• Experience owning operational reliability, scalability, recoverability (backups, disaster recovery, failover), and capacity planning.
• Experience performing operational activities such as batch processing, system backups, maintenance, monitoring, and providing first‑tier call support as part of a 24/7 response team.
• Experience with distributed, scalable microservices and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience with data storage, replication, caching, and search technologies such as Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Amazon RDS, GCP Cloud SQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Lucene/Solr.
• Hold at least one professional certification in AWS or GCP (Dev Ops or Sys Ops Engineer preferred).
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

• Additional medical, wellness, and pharmaceutical benefits.
• Short‑term disability, long‑term disability, AD&D, and life insurance.

• Paid sabbatical program after four years.
• Paid family and paternity leave.
• Annual educational stipend and tuition reimbursement.
• CFA exam stipend.
• Robust training programs on industry and soft skills.
• Employee assistance program and generous vacation, sick, and volunteer days.