
Software Engineer – Resilience
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $130,000 - $220,000 per year
Tech Stack
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