Staff Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

What you'll do

• Design and implement robust distributed services that balance reliability, throughput, latency, and cost.
• Develop solutions to combine less-available components into a highly available and resilient global architecture.
• Build and prototype new products to improve service resiliency and engineering velocity at scale.
• Automate disaster detection and failover systems for latency-critical applications.
• Optimize system performance by minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes and managing Mongo write concerns.
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders across engineering teams.
• Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and overall codebase standards.

What we're looking for

• Have 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service.
• Have a deep understanding of building scalable, resilient, distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission-critical systems.
• Have experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Have a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and be entrepreneurial, proactive, and self-driven.
• Have a strong history of being a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams.
• Be able to work from anywhere in the United States or Canada.