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ReflectionPosted 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Shared Services

On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom or New York City, New York, United States

Full TimeSenior LevelStartup

Job Summary

Build and mentor a high-performing team of systems engineers while providing front-line leadership on distributed systems design, container and Kubernetes abstraction layers, and service platforms. Guide technical and architectural decisions emphasizing scalability, robustness, and reliability SLI/SLO design, healthy on-call practices, and tail-latency under load. Stay hands-on to make targeted contributions as an individual contributor and work closely with research and training teams to co-design platform primitives and translate their needs into roadmap investments. Manage day-to-day execution by prioritizing work in a fast-paced, zero-to-one environment.

Required Qualifications

  • Experience building, mentoring, and growing engineering teams while staying technically hands-on
  • Deep distributed-systems engineering experience, with real ownership of production-grade systems at scale
  • Strong coding ability and the credibility to earn the technical trust of a strong team
  • Depth in at least one of the team's core areas — distributed systems architecture, service reliability, or the container/service platform
  • Fluency with the reliability toolkit: SLIs/SLOs, on-call, sharding and replication, coordination services, and tail-latency optimization
  • Ability to guide strategy and drive execution in a fast-moving, zero-to-one environment
  • Ability to partner effectively with research and training teams

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