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LeadFull-timeTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLGoAIAPI
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
Key Responsibilities
- →Lead the SRE pod: Set technical direction, drive prioritization, and mentor engineers—ensuring the team is tackling the highest-leverage reliability and scalability challenges.
- →Scale our data infrastructure: Architect and extend our ClickHouse and PostgreSQL deployments to handle terabytes of new data monthly; designing partitioning strategies, tuning queries, and building resilient replication and failover systems.
- →Improve system performance: Profile and optimize critical paths across our backend services, identify bottlenecks in data pipelines and API layers, and ship changes that meaningfully improve latency and throughput.
- →Build for reliability: Design and implement rate limiting, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and other patterns that keep the platform stable under load and during partial failures.
- →Automate everything: Drive tooling that eliminates toil—automating deployments, scaling operations, backup verification, and incident remediation.
- →Instrument and observe: Build out distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting that give engineers clear visibility into system behavior and make debugging production issues fast.
- →Define and enforce SLOs: Establish reliability targets aligned with customer needs, manage error budgets, and drive architectural decisions that balance shipping speed with system stability.
Requirements
- ✓8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend foundation, including 3+ years focused on reliability, infrastructure, or platform work.
- ✓Experience leading teams or pods—setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and driving execution on complex projects.
- ✓Deep expertise operating databases at scale, including schema design, query optimization, replication, and failover strategies.
- ✓Strong programming skills (Typescript, Python, Go, or similar) with a track record of building automation and tooling that meaningfully reduces operational burden.
- ✓Collaborative, low-ego attitude with a history of leveling up the people around you.
