Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Company: Metropolis Technologies Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 22:06:33 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : AI, AWS, DNS, Datadog, Feature Flags, Git, GitHub, Java, Load Balancing, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React, Scala, Snowflake, Spark, Stripe, Twilio, TypeScript About the job Experience: •Possess SRE or Reliability Engineering experience at companies known for operational excellence such as Google, Amazon, Netflix or high-growth startups where you built reliability practices from the ground up •Demonstrate incident response leadership including experience building incident management processes, conducting blameless post-mortems, and driving MTTR reduction initiatives in production environments •Utilize chaos engineering experience with tools like Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, or similar, including designing and executing game days and failure injection testing •Exhibit performance optimization experience with profiling, benchmarking, capacity planning, and system tuning at hyperscale including experience optimizing for high-throughput, low-latency systems •Show open source contributions or technical blog writing that demonstrates depth of expertise in reliability engineering, distributed systems, or production operations Required Skills: •Own the overall reliability posture for the Metropolis platform, establishing practices, metrics, and systems that ensure 99.9%+ uptime across all services •Design and implement automatic failover mechanisms for critical external dependencies like Twilio for SMS/voice and Stripe for payments with circuit breakers, retry policies, and degraded mode operations •Architect and build active-passive or active-active regional deployment strategies with database replication, automated failover, and DNS-based traffic routing including disaster recovery planning and testing •Establish comprehensive monitoring using Datadog for APM, logs, and metrics correlation •Implement synthetic monitoring, SLO-based alerting, on-call rotation, and escalation policies while building service health dashboards that show customer impact •Own the incident management process including workflows, tooling, post-mortem culture, runbook automation, and MTTR reduction initiatives to drive down mean time to recovery from detection to resolution •Drive adoption of resilience patterns across all services including health checks, graceful degradation, feature flags, rate limiting, backpressure mechanisms, and chaos engineering practices •Build and maintain local mirrors for critical dependencies with artifact caching, dependency pinning, and vulnerability scanning to prevent build failures from upstream outages Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!