Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead), Storage

Responsibilities

• Own and operate a highly available, low-latency, distributed, multi-tenant KV store supporting millions of read QPS and 99.9+% availability.
• Manage control planes and clients for ElasticCache clusters handling million+ IOPS and indexing QPS.
• Operate a scalable, reliable, performant distributed coordination service supporting MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Druid, Zookeeper, and other systems.
• Build and operate managed data export solutions including near real-time CDC and periodic mutation/full table snapshots.
• Lead a team of developers to deliver multi-quarter cross-functional projects.
• Stay current with data ingestion systems and evaluate/incorporate new technologies to improve architecture.
• Influence team and organizational long-term roadmap and strategy.
• Mentor and coach team members to enhance skills and technical standards.
• Raise operational standards by proactively identifying, debugging, and fixing issues; participate in on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure; experience architecting and scaling high-performance, business-critical systems.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams, building alignment on technical strategy.
• Strong judgment on technical trade-offs balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Experience onboarding to and navigating complex codebases and enabling others to do the same.