Engineering Lead, Distributed Systems & Shared Services

Reflection AI Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation

Stock options

Health & wellness

Meals provided

Parental leave

Unlimited vacation

Visa sponsorship

Team building

Job summary

Reflection invites an experienced Shared Services Lead to guide the engineering systems that power our research, training, and production environments. You’ll mentor engineers, shape architecture, and collaborate with research teams to translate needs into reliable platform primitives.

You’ll stay hands-on when needed, manage day-to-day execution in a fast-moving setting, and drive scalable, robust service design with SLI/SLOs, on-call practices, and tail-latency improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience building, mentoring, and growing engineering teams while staying technically hands-on.
• Deep distributed-systems engineering experience, with production-grade systems at scale.
• Strong coding ability and credibility to earn technical trust.
• Depth in distributed systems architecture, service reliability, or container/platform, with ability to learn the rest.
• Fluency with SLIs/SLOs, on-call, sharding/replication, and tail-latency optimization.
• Ability to guide strategy and drive execution in a fast-moving environment with research and training teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team.
• Provide front-line leadership of engineering efforts to build and scale shared services.
• Stay hands-on to contribute technically as needed.
• Manage day-to-day execution in a dynamic environment.
• Guide technical and architectural decisions emphasizing scalability and reliability.
• Co-design primitives with research and training teams and translate needs into platform investments.
• Raise the bar for technical judgment and execution in a fast-moving setting.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Coding ability

Architecture decisions

Strategic execution

Job description

Reflection invites an experienced Shared Services Lead to guide the engineering systems that power our research, training, and production environments. You’ll mentor engineers, shape architecture, and collaborate with research teams to translate needs into reliable platform primitives.

You’ll stay hands-on when needed, manage day-to-day execution in a fast-moving setting, and drive scalable, robust service design with SLI/SLOs, on-call practices, and tail-latency improvements.