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Sr. Staff Engineer (Reliability Engineering)

Richmond, VA, USFull-time$286k–$359k2026-09-29 → 2026-11-14
Based in United StatesVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Sr. Staff Engineer leading resilience engineering, preventing and resolving high-severity incidents, and driving systemic root cause analyses to ensure fault-tolerant infrastructure.

Role type

Sr. Staff Reliability Engineer (Strategic IC)

Builds

Enterprise critical platforms, observability standards, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering practices

Domain

Banking / Cloud Reliability Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP), data architecture, distributed systems, networking protocols, mentoring, system modernization

Preferred skills

Master's in CS/SE, HPC/ML systems design, agentic AI coding tools, cross-domain architectural reviews

Technologies

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala, Kubernetes, Docker

Responsibilities

Serve as technical authority during critical outages, lead cross-functional teams, define enterprise-wide standards for observability and disaster recovery, mentor engineers, drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices, collaborate on long-term platform strategy

Seniority

Sr. Staff, strategic leadership with hands-on contribution