BestBuy.com is one of the top e-commerce organizations in the world. Come join us on our path to creating one of the most fully featured, resilient and scalable web properties out there. This role is not for the faint of heart. It will test your patience with Internet gremlins that are only experienced when dealing with hair-raising levels of traffic, which would normally induce panic in the uninitiated. Applicants who thrive in chaos and ambiguity are encouraged to read on and apply.

  What you will do as a Site Reliability Engineer:

The Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for monitoring and maintaining a highly available, multibillion-dollar e-commerce site’s health at web-scale, to 99.95% reliability. Resiliency and monitoring accuracy is the goal of our Site Reliability Team, obtained through development, maintenance and analysis of a wide variety of industry leading monitoring tools, ranging from internally developed and open source to top of the line, commercially available SAAS solutions.

 

This position directly interfaces with front-end and back-end developers within Operations and Engineering disciplines as part of a Dev-Ops style team, responding not only to in-the-moment indications of potential problems but also making recommendations to improve resiliency and performance across all tiers of our applications. The role also works directly with various technical operations groups across the greater Best Buy Enterprise in order to sustain high-availability of various IT services consumed by our applications. In addition to technical troubleshooting and incident management, this position will contribute to maintaining and developing methods of visualizing data to support quick identification and diagnosis of performance data collected via our vast toolset.

Ideal candidates will have a broad understanding of all aspects of web technologies, e-commerce applications, monitoring, and be comfortable performing qualitative analysis on various sets of data.

 Basic Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of experience with front-end languages and frameworks including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Angular, Bootstrap or Backbone, etc.

  • 1+ years of experience with back-end technologies and frameworks including Java, PHP, Groovy, Spring, Oracle, Cassandra, Riak, Node or Laravel, etc.

  • 3+ years’ related experience in the operations and support of web application and server interactions, or 5+ years of similar experience without Bachelor’s degree

  • Participation in a rotating on-call schedule required  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with CDNs such as Akamai or Fastly

  • Fluency in Ruby, Java, Python or PHP

  • 2 or more years of experience qualitative analysis

  • Strong troubleshooting and communication skills

  • Experience with diagnostic browser add-ons and proxies such as HTTPWatch, HTTPfox, Fiddler2, Charles, RESTclient, CookiesManager, ModifyHeaders

  • Experience with Web and System monitoring and reporting applications such as Tealeaf, Gomez, Catchpoint, Keynote, Splunk, Dynatrace, SiteScope, Nagios, or Ganglia

  • Strong facilitation and incident management skills

  • Strong experience with the software development lifecycle

  • Ability to work cross-functionally and influence without authority

  • Comfortable in a fast-paced and often ambiguous environment with conflicting priorities

  • 2+ years of experience with 24x7 operations and support of web-scale systems

Desired Skills and Experience

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