Staff Engineer

About the role:

In this role, you will:

• Own parts of our core backend infrastructure, which is a complex, real-time distributed system written in Python and Rust
• Own large, complex initiatives end-to-end, including projects with incomplete or evolving requirements, and deliver them with minimal guidance
• Take ownership of reducing our incident rate
• Solve stability issues and highly complex production issues
• Own the technical responsibilities related to our SOC 2 process, including managing the person responsible for its day-to-day execution
• Constantly improve our development velocity while maintaining a very high reliability standard

Requirements

• Previously a Staff or Principal Engineer at a startup company
• 10+ years of experience in Python development
• Previous leadership experience, including leading teams and driving large, ambiguously defined projects from concept through delivery
• Strong Python Asyncio experience
• Strong software design skills
• Excellent communicator in writing and orally
• Deep understanding of Networking Protocols, Operating Systems
• Deep knowledge of Python Profiling
• Experience in delivering and troubleshooting a production-grade cloud-based distributed system
• Kubernetes and Helm experience
• Experience with different observability stacks