Lead Software Engineer - Reliability

Nubank

Hybrid

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Miami
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Nubank is one of the world's largest digital financial services companies, offering credit cards, personal loans, savings accounts, and insurance to tens of millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

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TL;DR · Lead Software Engineer - Reliability

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The Lead Software Engineer role at Nubank's U.S. Market team in Miami focuses on ensuring high reliability and operational excellence for a new financial product in the highly regulated U.S. market. This senior position involves defining and operating against SLOs, building observability layers, leading incident response, reducing toil through engineering, and enhancing developer experience. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with observability tools, system design, modern cloud environments, and a track record of technical leadership in production systems. They should be proficient in relevant technologies such as AWS/GCP, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and possess strong mentoring skills to raise the engineering bar across teams.

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AWS GCP Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Python PostgreSQL Prometheus Grafana Terraform

What you'll do

  • Define and operate against SLOs, managing error budgets to prioritize engineering decisions.
  • Build observability layer by improving metrics, logs, traces, and alerting for early issue detection.
  • Lead incident response as needed, driving blameless postmortems and turning findings into concrete work.
  • Reduce operational toil through software automation, self-healing behavior, and better defaults.
  • Stress-test designs for partial failure scenarios, ensuring resiliency primitives are tuned correctly.

What we're looking for

  • Track record of owning and operating production services in high-reliability environments.
  • Experience defining, operating against SLOs/SLIs, and using error budgets to influence decisions.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools for diagnosing complex issues.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems design and engineering resilient software architectures.
  • Proven ability to lead incident response and drive continuous improvement through postmortems.
  • Comfortable working in modern cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines, understanding their failure modes.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising the engineering bar.

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