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Justin Young

@justinyoung3

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Samsara keeping IoT telemetry flowing across 1.5M+ devices and three cloud platforms.

United States

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At Samsara, I’m the primary SRE for production microservices carrying real-time telemetry from more than 1.5 million devices across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I define SLOs with product teams and maintain 99.95%+ availability for critical data ingestion pipelines.

I’ve automated capacity provisioning and deployment verification, saving about 15 hours of operational toil each week, and redesigned observability across 50+ microservices. Earlier at Zillow, I improved P99 API latency by 35% and built resilience patterns for backend services.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Current

Samsara

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Primary SRE for production microservices on Samsara's IoT platform, ingesting over 25 trillion data points per year from 1.5M+ devices. Define and enforce SLOs, wrote automation tooling in Go, Python, and Bash, and redesigned observability stack across 50+ microservices.

AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Docker Helm ArgoCD Terraform Ansible Prometheus Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry Kafka Spark Go Python BASH PagerDuty Istio Linux SLOs Error Budgets Incident Management Capacity Planning DevSecOps SOC2

Software Engineer P3

Zillow

May 2022 - Mar 2023 (10 months)

Promoted to P3 (Senior) after 22 months. Owned backend microservices on AWS serving 200M+ monthly users, focused on performance optimization, reducing P99 latency by 35%, and building circuit breakers to prevent cascading failures.

AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible Prometheus Grafana Datadog PostgreSQL Redis Go Python BASH PagerDuty Linux Performance Optimization Circuit Breakers SLOs SOC2

Software Engineer P2

Zillow

Jul 2020 - May 2022 (1 year 10 months)

Built and shipped production REST/gRPC microservices in a continuous deployment environment with automated testing, canary analysis, and monitoring on AWS. Wrote integration tests, load tests, and CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, reducing rollback frequency by about 50%.

AWS Kubernetes Docker GitHub Actions Terraform Ansible Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry DynamoDB PostgreSQL Kafka Go Python BASH Linux CI CD On Call Observability

Software Engineering Intern

Trulia

May 2019 - Aug 2019 (3 months)

Shipped production features for Trulia's search platform using Python and Java, serving millions of monthly users. Built automated tests and CI/CD pipeline integrations with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and added Prometheus and Grafana monitoring.

Python Java Jenkins GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana AWS Docker Linux

Software Development Contractor

Vokal

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 (2 months)

Delivered full-stack features for client web apps using Python, JavaScript, and REST APIs. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.

Python JavaScript Jenkins BASH AWS Linux

Software Engineering Intern

Chamberlain Group

May 2018 - Jul 2018 (2 months)

Worked on embedded software and backend services for Chamberlain's myQ smart home IoT platform. Built automated testing frameworks and improved CI/CD pipelines for IoT firmware and cloud services.

IoT Firmware Development AWS CI CD Testing Automation Embedded Systems