Staff Production Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own high-risk technical domains including sharding core data stores and resource utilization
• Write production software to instrument, refactor, and rebuild components for scale
• Collaborate with product teams to improve reliability, efficiency, and resilience
• Contribute shared capabilities back to the platform layer
• Mentor fellow production engineers and guide teams toward high-velocity shipping

Requirements

• Experience owning reliability work within large-scale distributed systems
• Proven ability to work as an embedded engineer within product or feature teams
• Deep proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, C++, or comparable systems languages
• Practical experience with distributed systems patterns like sharding, replication, and consensus
• Ability to debug and navigate large, unfamiliar codebases quickly
• Strong understanding of the networking stack and Linux internals
• Experience with observability tooling, SLOs, and incident management
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and AWS at scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Enterprise SaaS background
• Deep JVM internals knowledge including GC tuning and thread profiling
• Experience with multi-region architecture or data store migrations
• Experience with eBPF or kernel instrumentation

Benefits

• Equity packages
• Inclusive parental leave policy
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance
• Flexible leave options