Staff Engineer
Core
Define and drive operational readiness standards, build reusable reliability capabilities, and coach engineering teams on incident analysis and reliability improvements across digital platforms.
Role type
Staff Production Engineer (Reliability Enablement) (via careerplan.io/jobs/R-0157607-staff-engineer-at-levistraussandco)
Builds
Reference implementations, instrumentation frameworks, synthetic monitoring solutions, load testing harnesses, and cross-domain dashboards
Domain
Consumer technology (web, mobile, commerce, identity, loyalty, payments)
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, incident management, root cause analysis, observability (metrics, tracing, logging), SLO/SLI design, mentoring, cross-functional influence
Preferred skills
Experience with Java, Node.js, TypeScript, or Go
Technologies
Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Go
Responsibilities
Define operational readiness standards including observability and alerting strategies; Build reusable reliability tooling and frameworks; Coach teams on incident analysis methodologies; Identify cross-domain reliability risks and coordinate improvements; Partner with Platform Engineering to improve reliability maturity
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
