Engineering Lead, Shared Services (Distributed Systems)

Visa Hunt; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation

Stock options

Health & wellness

Meals provided

Parental leave

Unlimited vacation (US)

Visa sponsorship support

Team off-sites

Job summary

Reflection is seeking a Shared Services Lead to build and scale the team that delivers our core platform primitives for research, training, and production environments. You will mentor engineers, guide architecture, and stay hands-on to ensure reliability and performance.

You will partner with research and training teams, drive platform investments, and maintain high standards for on-call, SLI/SLO design, backpressure, and tail-latency under load.

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 with credibility to earn technical trust.
• Depth in distributed systems architecture, service reliability, or container/platforms.
• Fluency with SLIs/SLOs, on-call, sharding, replication, coordination services, tail-latency.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of systems engineers.
• Provide front-line leadership of engineering efforts to scale our shared services.
• Stay hands-on to contribute as an individual contributor when needed.
• Manage day-to-day execution in a fast-paced environment.
• Guide technical and architectural decisions for scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with research and training teams to translate needs into platform investments.
• Raise the bar for technical judgment, prioritization, and execution.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Coding ability

Strategy & execution

SLIs/SLOs

On-call experience

Sharding

Replication

Coordination services

Tail-latency optimization

Job description

Reflection is seeking a Shared Services Lead to build and scale the team that delivers our core platform primitives for research, training, and production environments. You will mentor engineers, guide architecture, and stay hands-on to ensure reliability and performance.

You will partner with research and training teams, drive platform investments, and maintain high standards for on-call, SLI/SLO design, backpressure, and tail-latency under load.