Staff Software Engineer, Platform
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FoundFintech
Vancouver, Toronto or Remote (Canada); San Francisco, New York or Remote (USA)Full-TimeStaff
Salary$210,000 - $278,000 (USD or CAD)
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- Distributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with backend technologies in a public cloud environment.
- Proven track record of scaling and troubleshooting production systems or services.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects with business impact.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end request flow (CDN/WAF, load balancing, backend services).
- Ability to reason about performance, reliability, and failure modes at any layer.
- Strong fundamental knowledge of SLAs and SLOs.
- Experience managing tech debt and driving engineering quality improvements across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect the future versions of key systems like databases and distributed jobs, accounting for scaling needs.
- Design and implement developer tooling to make development and deployments safer, reproducible, and easy to rollout.
- Drive excellence in observability and monitoring while guiding incident response and on-call practices.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to maintain high technical quality, addressing debt, upgrades, and platform improvements.
- Mentor engineers on designing reliable, fault-tolerant systems and creating effective runbooks.
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