Job Summary
The Senior Staff Engineer will shape the organization’s long-term reliability approach and lead the evolution of company-wide site reliability engineering (SRE) architecture and standards. This technical leader will help engineering teams build and operate dependable, high-performing systems, while strengthening practices that support scalable incident response and management.
Responsibilities
- Develop and guide long-term strategies for system reliability across the company.
- Lead the design and adoption of shared SRE architecture, practices, and standards.
- Mentor engineering teams and support their technical development.
- Improve infrastructure performance, efficiency, and scalability.
- Establish and implement incident management processes that can scale with the organization.
- Apply strong system architecture and design expertise to consumer-facing technology.
Qualifications
- 12 or more years of software engineering experience.
- Substantial experience with system architecture and design for consumer-facing technology.
- At least 5 years in a senior technical leadership role.
- A degree in computer science or a related field.
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