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Join Blackstone as a Site Reliability Engineer in New York, driving reliability, observability, and automation across global platforms.
Lead SRE initiatives, shape tooling, and mentor teams while earning competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
Company Overview
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com . Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn , X , and Instagram .
Role Overview
Blackstone's Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for improving the reliability of systems and services to meet the needs of the business. This is achieved through collaboration with the development and engineering teams to leverage SRE practices and principles. You'll have the opportunity to identify and solve new problems as they arise, deploy and maintain observability systems and pipelines, enhance operations and support for services and platforms, and pursue emerging opportunities for efficiency and business value. This position involves the selection, implementation, and maintenance of key observability tooling. It requires ongoing evaluation of the firms needs in observability, monitoring, alerting, resilience, and recovery.
We work alongside service owners on design, implementation, and management of services for continuous improvement. We achieve the requisite reliability of services using clear definitions and measurable targets. We plan for and practice recovery from disaster scenarios and respond in real time to incidents. We guide the postmortem process in order to mitigate risks, prevent future disruptions, and improve the on-call experience. We aim to eliminate manual work, improve operational efficiency, and ensure high-quality outputs in all that we do.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm
- Incorporate observability standards into code and deployment pipelines
- Evolve the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams
- Partner with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency
- Assist developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants
- Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners
- Ensure monitoring and alerting reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations
- Implement strategic observability tools and work to control overhead in maintenance and cost
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact
- Use automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention
- Foster a blameless team culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting
Qualifications
- 5 + years of professional experience with either, Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering or Platform Engineering.
- Automation script writing skills; effectively reads and troubleshoots code (Python, C#, Typescript, etc.)
- Makes effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, OpenAI)
- Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience)
- Configuration-as-code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling experience (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI)
- Hand‑on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS
- Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux and Windows, and networking experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)
- Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during postmortems
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Curiosity and motivation to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownership
Expected Annual Base Salary Range
$140,000 - $225,000 Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.
Additional Compensation and Benefits
Additional compensation and benefits offered in connection with the role consist of comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.
Reasonable Accommodation
If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).
Securities Licenses
Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following: Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions; Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients; Supervising or training securities licensed employees; Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; And Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials. Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.
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