Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Company Summary EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. Department Summary Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow. Job Duties and Responsibilities Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview, which may include a live whiteboarding or technical assessment session. Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, observability, and distributed tracing solutions to improve system health visibility, MTTD, and proactive issue detection.
• Lead incident response efforts, participate in on-call rotations, conduct root cause analysis, and facilitate blameless post-mortems to drive continuous improvement and reduce MTTR.
• Develop, document, and maintain incident response procedures, runbooks, and SOPs to ensure rapid, consistent responses to critical incidents.
• Define, measure, and report SLIs/SLOs for retail wireless and supporting applications, implementing SRE best practices like error budgets and chaos engineering to enhance system reliability.
• Drive automation initiatives by developing tools and solutions to streamline operational tasks, reduce manual effort, and eliminate toil.
• Collaborate across teams to embed reliability into the software development lifecycle, ensure production readiness of new features, optimize performance, plan capacity, and mentor junior engineers.

Skills, Experience and Requirements Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role in a fast-paced, high-availability environment. Experience in the telecommunications or retail industry is a strong plus

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools, preferably Dynatrace, along with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack, Datadog, or AppDynamics.
• Proficient in programming and scripting languages relevant to SRE work, such as Python, Go, Java, Ruby, or Bash, with strong SQL skills for relational and NoSQL databases like Oracle, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and familiarity with services from Azure or Google Cloud; certifications like AWS Solutions Architect Associate are a plus.
• Solid understanding of microservices, REST APIs, and containerization technologies such as Docker; Kubernetes experience is preferred.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI), and experience with retail wireless systems such as billing and activation platforms.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills, with excellent communication and collaboration abilities; adaptable to dynamic environments and willing to support on-call rotations and weekend coverage.

Salary Ranges Compensation: $110,100.00/Year - $145,000.00/Year

Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws. The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job