Distinguished Engineer - Quality Engineering & Performance, Wallet, Payments & Commerce

What you'll do

• Define the long-term vision and strategy for quality, performance, and reliability across the financial services ecosystem.
• Architect systemic reliability frameworks and failover strategies for multi-region, high-availability payment systems.
• Establish and govern SLO/SLA standards, latency budgets, and scalability targets for distributed services.
• Lead large-scale performance optimization initiatives across cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Develop automation platforms featuring AI-assisted test generation, log analysis, and anomaly detection.
• Establish end-to-end observability standards including metrics, tracing, and real-time quality telemetry in production.
• Serve as the technical authority to influence architectural decisions and mentor senior engineering leaders.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in reliability engineering, large-scale automation systems, and performance engineering for distributed systems.
• Experience defining SLO/SLA frameworks for mission-critical systems at massive scale.
• Proven track record architecting resilience strategies across cloud-native environments like AWS.
• Experience working with regulated financial or high-trust systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architectural direction across large, complex organizations and mentor senior technical leaders.
• Strong background in observability, telemetry systems, production validation, and AI/ML-driven engineering productivity systems.
• Experience in payment systems, multi-region failover architectures, and compliance-driven system design (preferred).