Staff Site Reliability Engineer
fingerprint
Senior177 000-240 000 USD
About the position
Join a remote-first team as the first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer, focusing on making reliability measurable and raising operational standards.
Tech stack
- kubernetes
- aws
- go
- typescript
- datadog
- elasticsearch
Requirements
Required:
- 10+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years as an SRE, production engineer, or reliability-focused Staff engineer operating across multiple teams
- Deep experience with SLI/SLO design and error budgets in practice, including the hard part: getting product teams to adopt and act on them
- Strong incident leadership: you have run incident response and postmortems for high-severity, customer-facing incidents
- Hands-on depth in distributed systems failure modes in a high-throughput, low-latency environment
Nice to have:
- Experience in fraud detection, identity, payments, or other adversarial, real-time domains
- Multi-region, cell-based, or failure-isolation architecture experience
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Redis, DynamoDB, or Kafka at scale
Responsibilities
- Define SLIs and SLOs for Fingerprint's critical request paths with the teams that own them
- Strengthen the incident lifecycle end to end: detection, response, communication, postmortem quality, and follow-up completion
- Embed with teams for time-boxed engagements: pair on their hardest reliability problems
- Dig into production during incidents and investigations