Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data (Remote, International)

WebMD and its affiliates is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law. Build streaming and storage systems at PulsePoint PulsePoint processes billions of events daily through Kafka, Hadoop HDFS and Ceph. Our Data Platform team maintains these systems across hybrid infrastructure: bare-metal on-prem, cloud, and the integration between them. You own the lifecycle from architecture through deployment to capacity planning and incident response. What you'll work on Kafka architecture, topic design, governance, partition strategy, throughput and latency optimization. Ceph operations, pool design, placement optimization, capacity planning. Operational automation, reduce manual work, faster incident response, preventive systems. SQL Server backup and recovery pipelines, basic cluster support. Data team tooling with self-service capabilities and observability. Technology Apache Kafka for messaging layer Hadoop and Ceph as distributed storage layer SQL Server backup and recovery Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, ArgoCD for operational automation Prometheus, Grafana, Icinga and PagerDuty as observability layer Bare-metal servers and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure What matters: understand distributed systems, failure recovery, and operatio