Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry

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Canada, Canadian time zonesFull-TimeStaff

Salary186368 - 223642 CAD per year

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Proven delivery of large distributed systems
Experience shipping and operating complex systems that span multiple teams, with clear evidence of technical leadership and impact
Strong systems-design instincts
Deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling and cost
Hands-on cloud and platform experience
Solid experience with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC)
Comfortable defining SLOs/SLIs
Comfortable doing capacity planning, tuning performance, and driving reliability work end-to-end
Excellent coding and design skills
Ability to write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and lead technical designs
Comfort with AI-assisted development
Practical experience folding AI-powered developer tools into a team’s workflow
Experience with messaging and telemetry (Kafka, Prometheus/Grafana or equivalents)
Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities and drive outcomes in a remote-first environment
Clear written and verbal communication that works across engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Drive technical strategy and roadmap
Proactively define the architectural vision, prioritize work that unlocks major product or platform improvements, and influence product and engineering decisions
Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects
Own planning, design, execution, rollout and long-term operation of large initiatives
Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost for critical systems
Make pragmatic architecture choices that balance scalability, availability, latency and cost while ensuring systems remain maintainable and evolvable
Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response
Establish measurable reliability targets, run high-severity incident response, lead blameless post-mortems, and drive systemic fixes and automation to prevent recurrence
Improve observability, automation and operational readiness
Champion telemetry, alerting, runbooks, capacity planning and automation efforts that reduce toil, speed debugging and lower MTTR
Align stakeholders and remove blockers
Coordinate across Product, Design and other teams to align priorities, negotiate tradeoffs, and unblock delivery for large initiatives
Mentor and grow engineering talent
Coach senior and mid-level engineers, lead design reviews, raise engineering standards, and help teammates make sound technical tradeoffs
Represent engineering internally and externally
Communicate technical strategy clearly to non-engineering stakeholders and represent the team in cross-team planning

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