Staff Reliability Engineer, Full Stack
Skills
Full-Stack DevelopmentAmazon Web ServicesDatabasesIntegrated CircuitsProduction SystemsResiliencyShadowing
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale
- Strong TypeScript/Node.js or equivalent backend experience
- AWS experience with infrastructure-as-code CI/CD production tooling and databases such as PostgreSQL RDS and DynamoDB
- Proven incident response leadership including on-call triage mitigation and RCA follow-through
- Solid observability skills with logging metrics tracing and actionable alerts and dashboards
- Experience collaborating with mobile teams on API compatibility releases and feature flags
- Demonstrated Staff-level IC leadership through design reviews technical direction documentation and cross-team alignment
Nice to have
- React Native experience
- Reliability programs experience
- PostgreSQL tuning
- Redis tuning
- High-growth mindset
Day to day
- Own reliability outcomes for critical backend services and mobile integrations
- Lead incident response by coordinating teams diagnosing root causes communicating status and driving resolution
- Build monitoring observability and operational guardrails that improve detection diagnosis and prevention of incidents
- Improve engineering safety through safer deployments feature flags rollout strategies runbooks and durable post-incident fixes
- Mentor engineers and strengthen documentation onboarding and cross-team production ownership practices
Hiring process
- Screening call with recruiter
- Hiring manager conversation
- Candidate challenge
- Team member conversation
- Offer within 2 weeks of final call