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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

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. Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $244,000 - $305,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on developing scalable incident management processes, optimizing infrastructure for high availability, and implementing reliable design patterns. Proven ability to lead and mentor teams while fostering a culture of proactive reliability and collaboration across engineering functions.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)High-Availability SystemsMulti-Cloud EnvironmentsTechnical LeadershipIncident Management

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Hard Skills
System ArchitectureSoftware EngineeringProduction Readiness StandardsAutomationDesign PatternsScalable SystemsInfrastructure OptimizationCodingArchitecture/DesignIncident Response
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentorshipServant Leadership
Certifications & Qualifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science
Industry Keywords
Consumer-Facing TechnologyEngineering CultureProactive ReliabilityBlameless PostmortemsDistributed Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner
  • Design, implement, and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards
  • Create scalable incident management processes and reduce operational toil
  • Foster the SRE/Reliability model within the engineering culture
  • Optimize infrastructure and platforms for high availability and performance
  • Develop Production Readiness standards and automate/configure systems as code
  • Predict future failures and proactively mitigate them
  • Implement reliable design patterns such as circuit breakers and graceful degradation
  • Build a culture of proactive reliability and improve tooling leverage
  • Partner with engineering leaders and product engineering teams on large-scale distributed systems
  • Learn from incidents through blameless postmortems
  • Mentor and lead Site Reliability Engineers through servant leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies
  • 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect, driving technical direction and strategy across multiple teams or projects
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations
  • Expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms
  • Deep understanding of multi-cloud environments
  • Hands-on contribution to code and/or architecture/design

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Equity eligibility
  • Benefits eligibility
  • Employee Travel Credits
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities