Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. CSC Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable technology infrastructure across four global brands, an e-commerce platform, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, e-commerce, data, and supply chain platforms to enhance customer experience and service in an ever-evolving industry.

As an Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability and Foundational Engineering team, you'll enable teams to monitor their sites, apps, systems, and services. You will work closely with e-commerce, supply chain, commerce, and infrastructure teams. You'll be part of a team that will design and implement our new observability platform. You'll share modern observability practices with teams throughout Columbia.

You'll work with a talented team of engineers committed to building an open observability platform that enables CDT to monitor the systems critical to our business's health proactively.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• You will be part of the team creating the observability standards, tools, and practices for teams across CDT.
• You will design, build, and implement our new observability platform focusing on synthetics, metrics, and tracing.
• You will collaborate with technical teams to understand their needs and help define and implement observability solutions to meet them.
• You will provide technical mentorship to engineering teams helping them to align with best practices and open standards to own their observability.
• You will promote opportunities for enhanced observability and refactoring and identify areas of optimization.

YOU ARE

• You are a strong communicator and collaborator.
• You can communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders from development, ops, support, and infrastructure.
• You are passionate about observability, metrics, and traces.
• You are someone who approaches work with an automation-first mindset.
• You are a continuous learner who keeps up with the latest technologies and best practices in observability engineering.

YOU HAVE

• You have extensive experience using observability solutions like New Relic, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, Grafana, or similar.
• You have used open standards such as Open Telemetry (OTEL), Open Metrics, and Open Tracing to achieve observability goals.
• You have experience designing and implementing monitoring solutions incorporating synthetic testing, metrics, traces, and logging.
• You are familiar with cloud infrastructure and platform services (CIPS): Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems.
• You are proficient in one or more programming languages, such as JavaScript, Python, and C#.

#LI-JC2

Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.