Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Lakebase Manager

Impact

• Set the technical direction for LBM and own the quality and reliability of what the team ships, driving execution on the hardest, highest-risk parts.
• Drive architecture and design, and write code on the hardest parts of your team's projects.
• Set and uphold high technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence.
• Raise the technical bar of the team: mentor engineers, drive rigorous design and code review, and grow their distributed-systems and design skills.
• Define SLIs, meet SLOs, and drive long-term reliability improvements across the database lifecycle.
• Lead cross-team initiatives across the Lakebase stack: align with partner teams on dependencies and unblock cross-cutting projects.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver a long-term technical roadmap.

Requirements

• 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including the processes around testing, monitoring, and SLIs/SLOs.
• A track record of technical leadership as an individual contributor: setting architecture and direction for a team's projects through influence, without formal management authority.
• Strong hands-on depth: you still design systems and write production code, and can go deep on architecture for large-scale distributed services.
• Experience operating reliability-critical, highly available services (on-call, incident response, HA/failover).
• Comfortable working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, and balancing short-term delivery against long-term stability.
• Ability to align multiple stakeholders on competing priorities.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, or a similar systems language.
• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes.