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The System Reliability Engineer (SRE) guides and mentors other SREs and improves and protects the software and systems behind T-Mobile's IT services, including scalability, availability, latency, performance, security, and capacity, while enabling faster, higher-quality software delivery.
In this role, you will support T-Mobile’s Legal & Emergency Response platforms—mission-critical systems that enable response to urgent law enforcement and emergency situations. These systems operate in high-stakes environments where reliability, speed, and accuracy truly matter. When these systems are up and running, they can help enable real-world outcomes that impact people in critical moments.
This is not a maintenance role. You’ll step into a modern, cloud-native platform that is still evolving—giving you the opportunity to shape how it scales, improves, and becomes truly resilient. You’ll work on meaningful problems, own production systems end-to-end, and directly influence how reliability is built into the platform.
You’ll also work in an environment that embraces modern engineering practices, including strong adoption of AI-assisted tools, and a culture that values ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
If you’re someone who thrives in high-impact environments, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and wants your work to matter beyond just uptime metrics—this is a role where you can make a real difference.
T-Mobile requires U.S. citizenship for certain roles within the organization. This role requires U.S. citizenship. Individuals hired into this role will be required to submit documentation proving U.S. citizenship within the first 7 days of hire - failure to do so will result in termination.
Job Responsibilities:
- Apply DevOps automation for CI/CD, configuration management, and environment management (non-prod and prod)
- Provision and manage environments; configure pipelines and infrastructure (VMs/containers)
- Improve availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of services, with emphasis on Legal Technology platforms
- Own reliability and performance of critical applications (LRS, E-Core, LEEP)
- Participate in on-call rotation (~1 week every 2 months); respond to alerts/incidents
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements
- Build and enhance observability (dashboards, alerts), runbooks, and automation
- Partner with engineering to design for reliability and eliminate recurring issues in distributed systems
- Drive improvements in delivery and operations (cloud enablement, microservices, containerization, zero-downtime deployments)
- Mentor SREs and guide reliability practices across the team
Education and Work Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience
- 4–7+ years relevant experience (Required)
- Experience in Agile/DevOps environments (Required)
- Proficiency in one or more: Java, Python, Go, C/C#, or scripting (Shell/Perl) (Required)
- Experience with DBMS (Postgres or Oracle) (Required)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins) and DevOps tools (GitHub/GitLab, Chef/Puppet) (Required)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (Required)
- Experience with APM/observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics) (Required)
- Experience in cloud environments (Preferred)
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems using logs/metrics/traces (Required)
- Experience with high-availability or regulated environments (Preferred)
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT) (Preferred)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- DevOps (Required)
- Integration (Required)
- Cloud Computing (Preferred)
- Strong troubleshooting in distributed systems
- Ability to operate in production environments and respond to incidents
- Ownership mindset with focus on reliability and continuous improvement
Additional Role Context:
- Work on systems supporting law enforcement and emergency response
- Contribute to platforms with potential public safety impact
- Modern, evolving platform with opportunity to influence architecture and reliability
- Collaborative environment with shared operational ownership
- At least 18 years of age
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
T-Mobile requires U.S. citizenship for certain roles within the organization. This role requires U.S. citizenship. Individuals hired into this role will be required to submit documentation proving U.S. citizenship within the first 7 days of hire - failure to do so will result in termination.
Travel: Travel Required (Yes/No): No
DOT Regulated: DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No
Base Pay Range: $98,500 - $177,700
Corporate Bonus Target: 15%
The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.
At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ347913¶dox=1
At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile’s amazing benefits, check out _www.t-mobilebenefits.com_.
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