About this role
<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Requisition Number: 75819</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>The company built on breakthroughs. <br>Join us. </strong> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">How do we do this? With our people. They break through limitations and expectations – not once in a career, but every day. They help move our company, and the world, forward. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> Come break through with us. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with: </span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences </span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation </span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#1b3a5c">Site Reliability Engineer</span></strong></p> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #2e75b6 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 0.0in 4.0pt 0.0in"> <p style="margin:0.25in 0.0in 6.0pt;padding:0.0in;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a;border:medium none currentcolor"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1b3a5c">About the Role</span></strong></p> </div> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with a strong software development background to join our Scrum team maintaining and improving an Enterprise Generative AI platform. This role focuses on platform stability, performance optimization, uptime, and availability. You will own the reliability posture of a platform serving tens of thousands of enterprise users — from infrastructure provisioning through production observability. You'll work alongside application developers, not above or below them, ensuring what they build can run safely at scale.</span></p> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #2e75b6 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 0.0in 4.0pt 0.0in"> <p style="margin:0.25in 0.0in 6.0pt;padding:0.0in;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a;border:medium none currentcolor"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1b3a5c">What You’ll Do</span></strong></p> </div> <ul style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Maintain team CI pipelines and govern code contribution quality rules including branch protection, automated testing gates, and artifact management</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Craft efficient, secure Terraform for supporting infrastructure in AWS</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Diagnose and troubleshoot production incidents — you are the last line of defense before the customer is impacted</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Work with software developers on leveraging cloud-based SaaS or PaaS offerings safely in our product</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Evaluate production readiness of developer features — you have a voice and a vote before code hits production</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Provide comprehensive security review and hardening including secrets management, network policies, and IAM boundaries</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Own and evolve the platform's observability stack — monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and on-call response</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Manage and maintain container orchestration infrastructure (ECS/Kubernetes), including deployments, scaling policies, and health checks</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Maintain and document runbooks for common failure modes so the team isn't dependent on tribal knowledge</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Partner with developers during incident response — drive root cause analysis and ensure follow-through on remediation</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technical grooming</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.25in 0.0in 6.0pt;padding:0.0in;border-width:medium medium 1.0pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor #2e75b6;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1b3a5c">Required Skills & Experience</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">5+ years of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure using IaC tools</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience with Terraform including authoring custom modules</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Production AWS experience — you've built and operated infrastructure, not just deployed apps to someone else's</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience instrumenting enterprise-grade applications for uptime, performance, and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Comfort working inside application codebases—you can read Node.js/Python/Go well enough to diagnose issues and handle straightforward patches when developers are busy, even if you're not the one writing features</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience leveraging AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) — we use these daily and expect you to as well</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Strong written and verbal communication — you'll be the person explaining to a developer why their feature isn't production-ready yet, and you need to do that with clarity and respect</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.5in;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"> </p> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #2e75b6 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 0.0in 4.0pt 0.0in"> <p style="margin:0.25in 0.0in 6.0pt;padding:0.0in;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a;border:medium none currentcolor"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1b3a5c">Preferred Qualifications</span></strong></p> </div> <ul style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience operating deployments on ECS or Kubernetes at enterprise scale</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, ALB, DocumentDB, CloudWatch)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Prior experience supporting enterprise platforms with 10,000+ active users</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Familiarity with AI/LLM platform architecture — you don't need to train models, but you should understand what the application is doing so you can support it effectively</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience operating PostgreSQL at scale — backups, replication, performance tuning</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience with secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Familiarity with container security scanning and vulnerability management</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience writing or maintaining incident runbooks and post-mortem processes</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Prior on-call experience with defined SLAs/SLOs</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"> </li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 6.0pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a"> </p>