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Remote OR Hybrid:This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, Pontiac, or Milford], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimumThe Role:This is a senior technical leadership role, and we are looking for individuals who have demonstrated success in designing and maintaining large-scale, complex systems with a focus on the application layer. Our engineers have a passion for quality, efficiency, and reliability to help us accelerate and innovate in this exciting and critical space. Our team believes in extreme ownership where we manage the scale, availability, and operations for our applications. As a staff engineer, you'll be creating patterns for reliability, implementing reliability patterns into our applications, and creating observability into our applications to support the vehicle data operations for millions of vehicles on a global scale. You will work with the embedded vehicle teams, data engineers, infrastructure engineers, developer experience, and application teams to bring these services and client experiences to life. As a key member of our SRE team, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of how we build reliable and efficient software systems for the next generation of transportation. What You'll do:Design and implement reliability patterns for client applications, communication protocols, and back-office services Operate and influence data collection, processing, and delivery systems that are scalable, resilient, and capable of operating on millions of vehicles at a global scale Leverage monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) to ensure system health and reliability Lead automation efforts to reduce toil and keep our systems running efficiently Lead incident response efforts, participate in on-call rotation, ensure root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement after incidents Drive postmortem processes, focusing on identifying and remediating systemic issues to prevent recurrence Participate in mentorship programs to help grow the team from your experience
Additional Description
Your Skills Abilities (Required Qualifications)BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering 8+ years of experience engineering reliability Experience building and operating enterprise cloud applications Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes Familiarity with security practices such as DevSecOps, and ensuring secure and compliant infrastructure as part of reliability engineering Ability to lead technical decision-making, balancing reliability, performance, and cost Ability to make challenging decisions under pressure Ability to learn complex systems in order to identify and mitigate incidents Ability to work well cross-functionally and navigate through ambiguity Strong written and verbal communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.The salary range for this role is $186,200 to $285,300. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
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