Requirements

• Experience in development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads
• Ability to design fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting
• Expertise in establishing SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts ensuring reliability and performance
• Skills in designing performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing, as well as replication and synchronization for correctness and availability
• Proactive diagnosis of production issues, guiding incident response and root cause analysis
• Experience with enabling in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact
• Mentorship capabilities in troubleshooting and operational practices
• Implementation of encryption, access controls, and security remediation for multi-tenant environments
• Ensuring security compliance with applicable standards and maintaining documentation
• Development and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for cloud infrastructure
• Implementation of safe and repeatable patching, updates, and rollbacks through change-management practices
• Ability to manage moderately complex initiatives with prioritization of work, timelines, resources, and deliverables
• Collaborative skills for cross-team and stakeholder alignment
• Strong problem-solving skills including analysis, escalation, documentation, and sharing of solutions
• Commitment to continuous learning and skill development
• Coaching and mentoring junior engineers
• Focus on continuous improvement of processes, workflows, and team effectiveness
• Participation in candidate interviews, assessments, and hiring recommendations for talent development

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems
• Defining scalability requirements and optimizing performance leveraging distributed state management and data-plane platforms
• Designing systems with robust observability, testing, replication, and resilience mechanisms
• Driving operational readiness, production troubleshooting, and mentoring peers
• Implementing security, compliance, Infrastructure as Code, and automation for safe patching, upgrades, and rollbacks
• Managing projects, collaborating with diverse teams, and aligning objectives to business and customer needs
• Identifying and implementing process, workflow, and team effectiveness improvements
• Supporting talent development through hiring processes and mentorship