Staff Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

About the Role

As a Staff Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering, youll work independently taking ownership of significant components and systems. Youll mentor junior contributors while driving technical excellence and reliability improvements across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes: Design and implement complex application lifecycle management, custom operators, and advanced troubleshooting
• Infrastructure as Code: Architect comprehensive IaC solutions with advanced configurations and module development
• Automation & Development: Design and build sophisticated automation frameworks and tools in Golang and Python
• Component Ownership: Take full ownership of significant system components with responsibility for their reliability and performance; define SLA targets and drive achievement
• Architecture & Design: Design components and systems with moderate complexity, evaluating tradeoffs and writing comprehensive design documents
• Reliability Engineering: Contribute improvements that significantly improve product security, quality, ease of operation, reliability, and performance. Own reliability for major platform components
• Automation Excellence: Implement automation frameworks that scale across teams; eliminate entire classes of manual work
• Observability: Design comprehensive observability strategies; implement advanced monitoring and distributed tracing
• Incident Management: Lead major incident response; establish incident management processes and runbooks
• Performance Engineering: Drive system-wide performance improvements; establish performance engineering practices
• Collaboration: Lead technical discussions with product engineering; influence architecture decisions across teams
• Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on complex problems; drive improvements to engineering processes and operational procedures

Qualifications

• Experience: 6+ years with BS in designated Engineering or related field
• Advanced Technical Skills: Expert-level proficiency in Golang and Python with system design experience
• Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep understanding of Terragrunt/Terraform, including advanced features and best practices
• Kubernetes: Advanced Kubernetes knowledge including operators and Helm
• Observability: Expert knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to mentor others and lead technical initiatives
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for design documentation and presentations