Persona

Software Engineer – Resilience

Persona

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Partner with product teams on high-impact projects to solve performance challenges
  • Dive deep into incidents to uncover architectural causes
  • Design, build, and promote reusable resilience patterns and tooling
  • Own and advance the observability strategy
  • Mentor and coach engineers to raise technical bar
  • Establish and drive a new Operational Excellence review process
  • Help define and measure SLOs for critical user journeys

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building and shipping complex production systems
  • Direct experience in performance, scalability, or observability is a significant plus
  • Enjoys mentoring other engineers and can clearly explain technical ideas
  • Deep expertise in metrics, logs, and traces
  • Experience in instrumenting complex, distributed systems
  • Ability to listen with empathy and build trust
  • Ability to build robust libraries and tools that improve other engineers' work
  • Takes Initiative and is comfortable with ambiguity
Benefits
  • medical, dental, and vision
  • 3% 401(k) contribution
  • unlimited PTO
  • quarterly mental health days
  • family planning benefits
  • professional development stipend
  • wellness benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
performance engineeringscalabilityobservabilitymetricslogstracesdistributed systemsresilience patternstoolingSLOs
Soft Skills
mentoringcoachingcommunicationempathytrust buildinginitiativecomfort with ambiguity