The Emergency Call Management organization consists of Emergency Call Handling and Emergency Call Routing teams. Production systems running our products from both teams are public cloud-based solutions requiring 99.999% or greater availability.
The Emergency Call Handling team is responsible for SaaS solutions that provide telecommunicators and supervisors intelligence, flexibility and mobility to help save lives. Trusted by thousands, answering over 65% of all 9-1-1 calls in the US, our call handling software offers PSAPs proven technology that increases productivity and continually strengthens how our customers coordinate response, and exchange life-saving information.
The Emergency Call Routing team is responsible for SaaS solutions that provide geospatial and traditional call-routing capabilities to communities, regions, and states. These systems are ultra highly available, providing the service to route any caller dialing 9-1-1 (or 1-1-2, etc.) to the appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP) as quickly as possible.
This position supports all of the Emergency Call Management organization.
As a software engineer on the Emergency Call Management site reliability engineering (ECM-SRE) team you will join a team of talented software engineers who work directly with product and engineering teams to constantly improve reliability across our suite of public safety products.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Architecture and implementation of Monitoring/Observability objectives. This includes maintenance of Alert response playbooks.
- Creation and reinforcement of the HA and reliability strategy.
- Triage of customer-reported incidents and problems to the proper software team, requiring troubleshooting and problem management skills.
- Maintenance and reporting of SLOs and error budget.
- Facilitation of Chaos Engineering activities with multiple engineering teams.
- Developing the SRE culture and sharing best practices across Motorola Solutions’ Emergency Call Management organization.
- On-call support alongside multiple engineering teams for products and services in production. This role focuses on Incident Command to maintain focus and direction of the incident process. This is essential to meet regulatory reporting requirements.
- Assist Motorola Solutions’ customer support teams in creating customer facing communication documents, requiring strong communication skills.
- Facilitation of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis with multiple engineering teams
Basic Requirements
- BS in Computer Engineering (or equivalent degree)
- 2+ years of professional software development
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience developing cloud-based applications
- Experience developing REST-based APIs and implementing microservice principles and architectures
- Experience with modern DevOps tooling (including CI/CD pipelines)
- Familiarity with the concepts involved in designing a high availability architecture
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring
- Familiarity with automated testing
- Familiarity with network concepts and protocols (OSI, SIP, HTTP, WebSockets, or similar)
- Creativity and persistence when solving complex problems
- Enthusiasm for learning key technologies, architectures, processes, and best practices
Nice to have
- Familiarity with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale
- Familiarity with SLOs and SLIs
- Familiarity with incident response, disaster recovery, root cause analysis, and postmortems
- Familiarity with IaC
- Familiarity with redundancy and failovers
- Familiarity with capacity planning and load balancing
- Familiarity with service mesh
- Familiarity with feature flags, canary releases, or blue/green deployments
- Familiarity with hybrid cloud architecture
- Familiarity with systems programming (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs, etc)
- Experience being on-call for a product in production