Senior Staff Engineer, Software

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Position Description

Our Senior Staff Software Engineer works with our Managers, Distinguished and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, site reliability engineering principles and strategic planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will:

* Develop and drive the overall strategy for the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) organization, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives.

* Provide thought leadership in BCDR, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance our backup/restore posture.

* Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities

* Design and implement robust strategies to ensure data safety, integrity and correctness

* Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions.

* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data safeguard best practices into the development and deployment processes.

* Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios on our orchestration and backup/restore systems.

* Conduct regular simulations and drills to ensure the readiness of the organization in the event

of a disaster.

* Hands-on software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents, Architecture, Software Development, Software Reviews, Testing, Production Readiness Reviews, among others)

* Evaluate, select, and implement cutting-edge technologies and tools to enhance our data safeguard capabilities including but not limited to processes, compliance, and visibility.

* Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our data safeguard capabilities.

* Work closely with executive leadership, tech teams, and other stakeholders to communicate the importance of data safeguarding and foster a culture of resilience.

* Act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on backups/restores and security of data, matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

* Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

* Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

* Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Qualifications

* Fluency in at least one modern language (Go/Python preferred)

* Understanding of compression algorithms, deduplication, encryption, and error correction.

* Understanding of SQL and No

SQL databases, including stateful services management and storage

* Understanding of networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, global load balancing, queues, DNS and CDN

* Deep knowledge of SRE practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of on prem and public cloud-based network, compute, and storage technologies

* In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS technologies, container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), cloud efficiency and observability etc.

* Strong background in incident management

* Ability to create incident response playbooks, runbooks, incident triaging strategies, and post-incident analysis to drive continuous improvement in system reliability and availability

* Experience with open-source management and monitoring tools

* Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)

* Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance standards

* Excellent leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth

* Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving operational excellence

* Visionary thinker…