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About The Role As Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the resilience and availability of Kohl’s systems and applications and collaborate closely with development teams to review designs, conduct risk assessments and implement robust monitoring and failover mechanisms. What You’ll Do Drive incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to enhance system reliability Establish consistent practices that elevate Kohl’s operational excellence through automation and process improvements Follow software lifecycle and drive reliability, observability and efficiency across product teams within an assigned domain Identify repeated toil and find opportunities for automation and risk reduction On-call on a rotation to respond to production incidents and conduct blameless retros and root-cause analyses (RCAs) to drive a culture of continuous improvements Proactively identify failures before they cause outages using chaos engineering techniques such as edge cases, failure modes and design review Advise on capacity planning and provide continuous assessments on systems behavior and consumption Work with product managers to identify and prioritize work for reliability best practices (i.e., leveraging SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets) Additional tasks may be assigned Required What Skills You Have Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field 2+ years of experience in software development Strong programming skills in one or more languages (Java, Python, Go or Node.js) Working knowledge of systems architecture, operating system internals and network fundamentals Experience working with one cloud platform (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure) Preferred Experience with monitoring techniques and tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Tracing) Working knowledge around containerization and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher)
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
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When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.