Staff Software Reliability Engineer - Data Platform

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, architects, and cross-functional partners on project development, design, and implementation.
• Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning.
• Coach and mentor engineers.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and incident management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience.
• 2+ years of experience with an object-oriented language, preferably Java.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based distributed computing technologies, including:
  • Messaging systems such as Kinesis and Kafka.
  • Data processing systems such as Flink, Spark, and Beam.
  • Storage and compute systems such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Hadoop.
  • Coordinators and schedulers such as those in Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Mesos.
• Experience developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems.
• Excellent grasp of software engineering principles.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, and memory management.
• Experience with reliability engineering, particularly data quality, data observability, and incident management.

Nice to Have

• Experience maintaining security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure.
• Experience using major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high-volume services.
• Experience developing data integration applications for large-scale, petabyte-scale environments across batch and online systems.
• Contributions to distributed systems or experience using high-volume or critical systems such as Kafka or Hadoop.
• Experience developing Kubernetes-based services on AWS.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary for candidates located in Canada: $160,000–$220,000 CAD.
• Equity, where applicable, bonus, and benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP matching, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.