Site Reliability Engineer III (Kubernetes Platform)

Job Summary

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) brings together software and systems engineering to design and operate large-scale, highly distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. As a Site Reliability Engineer III, on the Platform team, you will play a key role in designing, building, and operating the foundational infrastructure that powers Guidewire's SaaS platform. You will focus on automation, reliability, scalability, and operability - ensuring our multi-tenant cloud platform consistently meets both functional and non-functional requirements. You will work closely with product development teams to influence system design, improve resilience, and ensure production readiness, while building the tools and frameworks that enable efficient, global, follow-the-sun operations.

Responsibilities

• Drive Reliability, Automation Scale: Design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable infrastructure for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Drive Reliability, Automation Scale: Automate deployment, provisioning, and operational workflows across cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Drive Reliability, Automation Scale: Develop internal tools, services, and frameworks to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Drive Reliability, Automation Scale: Participate in a 24x7 follow-the-sun on-call rotation to support critical production systems.
• Improve Platform Infrastructure: Contribute to core platform systems by building features, resolving issues, and enhancing reliability.
• Improve Platform Infrastructure: Partner with development teams to ensure systems meet availability, performance, and scalability requirements.
• Improve Platform Infrastructure: Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and failure modes, and implement solutions before they impact customers.
• Observability, Incident Management Resilience: Build and maintain observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards).
• Observability, Incident Management Resilience: Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and reliability metrics.
• Observability, Incident Management Resilience: Lead or contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
• Observability, Incident Management Resilience: Drive improvements toward self-healing systems and reduced operational toil.
• Security Identity: Design and support secure access patterns, including SSO, SAML, and OAuth-based authentication systems.
• Security Identity: Ensure platform services meet security and compliance standards.
• Enablement Collaboration: Collaborate across engineering teams, providing guidance, feedback, and hands-on contributions.
• Enablement Collaboration: Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and training materials.
• Enablement Collaboration: Mentor engineers and promote best practices in reliability engineering and automation.

Who You Are

Infrastructure Development

• Strong programming skills in Python or Go (Java/Spring Boot is a plus).
• Deep experience with AWS and building/operating production systems at scale.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, CNI, and Ingress networking.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes primitives and patterns (deployments, services, operators, etc.).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, or similar).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.

Observability Operations

• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or CloudWatch.
• Familiarity with incident management practices and production support in a microservices environment.
• Experience with messaging/streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS) and relational databases (e.g., Aurora, RDS) is a plus.

Security Identity

• Working knowledge of SSO, SAML, OAuth, and identity providers (Okta is a plus).
• Experience with AWS IAM (roles, policies, IRSA), VPC security groups, and Kubernetes security primitives (RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management).

DevOps Delivery

• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins, FluxCD, or Bitbucket.
• Comfortable working in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban).

Mindset Collaboration

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a proactive, systems-thinking mindset.
• Passion for automation: If you have to do it more than once, automate it.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across distributed teams.
• A collaborative team player who can influence, mentor, and lead through technical expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and data-driven insights to improve productivity and outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience supporting large-scale SaaS platforms
• AWS or Kubernetes certifications
• Exposure to modern platform frameworks such as KubeVela (OAM) or Crossplane
• Contributions to open-source projects

Why Guidewire

• Work on a mission-critical global platform used by leading PC insurers worldwide
• Solve complex, real-world infrastructure problems at genuine scale
• Be part of a collaborative, high-impact engineering culture grounded in integrity, rationality, and collegiality
• Opportunity to shape the future of a rapidly evolving cloud platform
• A culture of curiosity and innovation where engineers are empowered to leverage AI and emerging technologies.

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