What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Reliability Engineer position at Vanguard Group, Inc.?
Job Details
At Vanguard, we pride ourselves on delivering an exceptional client experience to all investors; at the core of this experience are systems that reside in a technically complex and constantly evolving resiliency landscape. Passionate, technically skilled engineers are at the center of our resiliency operations, and we are looking to grow our team.
We are seeking an experienced engineer with broad, end-to-end software development experience, including operating applications in a microservices environment in production at scale. This role goes beyond feature implementation - it requires someone who can design, build, and support resilient systems from the ground up.
As a Senior Reliability Engineer at Vanguard, you will play a critical role in solving impactful operational problems. You are curious and take a proactive approach to identifying problems and making improvements. You balance innovative thinking with pragmatism and understand the long-term impacts of technical decisions. You communicate complex ideas clearly and collaborate effectively to deliver scalable solutions.
Core Responsibilities:
Skills and Qualifications
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
We are seeking an experienced engineer with broad, end-to-end software development experience, including operating applications in a microservices environment in production at scale. This role goes beyond feature implementation - it requires someone who can design, build, and support resilient systems from the ground up.
As a Senior Reliability Engineer at Vanguard, you will play a critical role in solving impactful operational problems. You are curious and take a proactive approach to identifying problems and making improvements. You balance innovative thinking with pragmatism and understand the long-term impacts of technical decisions. You communicate complex ideas clearly and collaborate effectively to deliver scalable solutions.
Core Responsibilities:
- Improve resiliency engineering practices across platforms and applications, including:
- Resilient application design patterns
- System observability
- Deployment strategies
- Incident detection, troubleshooting, and resolution
- Develop and support OpenTelemetry implementations for JavaScript across multiple application environments (browser, ECS, lambda, etc )
- Contribute to architectural decisions and support implementation of solutions.
Skills and Qualifications
- Expertise in JavaScript (server-side and client-side execution environments).
- Strong knowledge of resiliency engineering techniques for both platforms and applications.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and implementing effective mitigations.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry specification and core APIs.
- Practical experience developing and operating software in distributed systems environments.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
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