Chaos & Reliability Engineer 2 (remote)

Company: Nordstrom
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

Are you interested in using the hottest tech to deploy containers and manage large clusters of machines where all an enterprise's critical apps run? Do you take joy in figuring out how to make applications more reliable?

Nordstrom is investing in how we design and deploy software. We are obsessed with creating a joyful and automatic DevOps experience, consistent across clouds and data centers, for our users.
As a Chaos and Resiliency Engineer, you will be working closely with Application Development teams and Platform teams to guide them in optimizing their applications and platforms to deliver best-in-class reliability to Nordstrom's applications. Our Load and Resiliency tests are business-critical components supporting our customer's experience. In addition, the CRE team is responsible for providing capabilities that engineering teams can use to ensure its software is scalable, highly available, and resilient.

A day in the life...
Design, maintain and optimize the Go-based Load Testing Engine for Nordstrom applications. Research and develop chaos and reliability tests into the CI pipeline. Work with development teams to integrate their systems into routine load/reliability testing. Contribute code back to open-source projects to fix bugs and add features needed by our team. Build sensors to monitor load/reliability tests; troubleshoot and fix the load/reliability tests when they break. Share the responsibility of being on-call and conducting system architecture reviews.

You own this if you have...
Proficiency with software development in a well-known language, Go/Python/Rust strongly preferred Experience with Chaos Engineering tools like Gremlin, Litmus, Chaos Toolkit. Experience with managing and scaling workloads on Kubernetes or another Container Orchestration Platform (e.g., OpenShift). Familiarity with networking, APIs, Kafka, and distributed systems is a plus. Ability to debug, optimize, and automate routine tasks. Experience with Dispatcher / Worker architecture and experience with secure vault concepts and tools. Strong interest in SRE topics like SLOs, Resiliency, Scaling, and Performance. Strong interest in Chaos Engineering topics like Failure Mode, Fault Analysis, Alerting, and Synthetic Failures. Eager to learn and soak in new information.

We've got you covered---
Our employees are our most important asset and that's reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:
Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
Life Insurance and Disability
Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points...
The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It's not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.
Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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