Sr. Availability & Reliability Software Engineer

Job Title

Drives the design, development, and delivery of high-impact Availability & Reliability Engineering solutions that improve platform resiliency, operational efficiency, and service reliability.

Applies advanced software engineering principles, cloud technologies, observability practices, and automation capabilities to build scalable solutions that enhance incident response, operational readiness, and application health.

Leads large and complex initiatives within the engineering organization, providing technical guidance, mentoring team members, and partnering across teams to support strategic objectives related to automation, operational excellence, resilience engineering, and AI-enabled operations.

Translates operational insights, technology risks, and reliability challenges into practical solutions that improve system performance, strengthen stability, and support the organization's evolving technology landscape.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Implements software architecture and engineering approaches for complex initiatives within the job area, contributing to technical plans and working to achieve operational targets with major impact on results.
• Adopts and refines advanced software engineering standards, practices, and governance mechanisms for the job area, influencing how multiple teams improve quality, reliability, and delivery.
• Collaborates with senior engineers, product partners, and architecture teammates to shape technology approaches for the domain, providing deep technical insight and proposing solution patterns that inform local roadmaps and priorities.
• Leads the end-to-end technical design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software solutions for the job area, producing patterns and examples that other technical professionals can follow.
• Independently troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues in the area of responsibility, designing innovative architectures and performance, reliability, and scalability improvements that advance business objectives.
• Provides ongoing technical guidance, coaching, and training to other engineers, delegating and reviewing work from lower-level technical professionals and raising the technical bar through design reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and techniques relevant to the job area, building prototypes and solution concepts that contribute measurable input into new features, products, or capabilities.
• Contributes to the development of long-term technical goals and plans for the area of responsibility through well-reasoned recommendations, design proposals, and implementation experience.
• Leads large or complex initiatives within the job area, coordinating and delegating technical work that may span outside the immediate team, and ensuring cohesive, high-quality outcomes with limited supervision.

Qualifications Required Qualifications The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development.
• Deep knowledge of multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, testing, deployment, and security practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• Professional certifications in cloud, reliability, observability, or software engineering disciplines such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP), Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or equivalent.
• Expertise in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, microservices, container orchestration, Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability platforms, and resiliency engineering practices.
• Solid experience with Agile delivery frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and engineering practices that improve reliability, scalability, and operational effectiveness.
• Demonstrated experience implementing observability solutions utilizing telemetry, logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, and operational analytics to improve service health, operational visibility, and incident response effectiveness.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, identify recurring patterns, and recommend long-term improvements that enhance system stability and reliability.
• Experience developing automation solutions,…