Staff Platform Engineer - Quality & Reliability

fb9e7da1-2660-46a2-9ffc-154a66684510; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity grant

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules

One-time work-from-home allowance

Lunch provided for in-office days

Job summary

BuildOps seeks a Staff Software Engineer to set and drive our company-wide technical strategy for building, shipping, and operating reliable software. You will influence system design, validate changes, observe production behavior, manage risk, and create platform capabilities that make safe, dependable delivery the default.

The role spans architecture, tooling, release safety, observability, resilience, testability, and engineering practices, with a focus on multi-team collaboration and

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience at staff level or equivalent.
• Led multi-team initiatives that improved production reliability, delivery, or platform capabilities.
• Strong systems thinking connecting architecture, data integrity, and operational behavior.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment such as AWS.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive BuildOps’ technical strategy for engineering quality and safe delivery.
• Identify systemic sources of customer-impacting failures and lead cross-team initiatives.
• Establish architectural principles and paved roads for reliable system design and safe delivery.
• Partner with engineering teams during design to improve resilience and operability.
• Build or guide development of shared platform capabilities for release safety and observability.
• Advance BuildOps’ observability strategy to understand system behavior and detect regressions.

Skills

Staff-level scope

Cross-team leadership

Systems thinking

Multi-team initiatives

Tools

AWS

Job description

BuildOps seeks a Staff Software Engineer to set and drive our company-wide technical strategy for building, shipping, and operating reliable software. You will influence system design, validate changes, observe production behavior, manage risk, and create platform capabilities that make safe, dependable delivery the default.

The role spans architecture, tooling, release safety, observability, resilience, testability, and engineering practices, with a focus on multi-team collaboration and