Metropolis
Staff Software Engineer, Reliability
$204K–$248K
Seattle, Washington, United States +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 8+ years; includes software engineering, reliability engineering, SRE practices, or production operations at scale.
About the job
Owns platform-wide reliability for Metropolis’s mobility infrastructure by designing failover, observability, and resilience systems and establishing reliability practices.
What you'll do
- Build failover, regional deployment, database replication, and disaster recovery systems for critical services.
- Establish monitoring, SLO alerting, incident management, and resilience practices, including chaos engineering.
- Maintain local dependency mirrors and drive reliability standards across teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of engineering experience in software engineering, reliability engineering, SRE practices, or production operations at scale.
- Expert reliability engineering skills, including multi-region architectures, failover automation, circuit breakers, chaos engineering, and disaster recovery.
- Production observability expertise with Datadog or similar APM platforms; AWS production experience; database and distributed systems knowledge.
- Expert-level Java and/or Scala proficiency; experience with AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
Nice to have
- Scala experience.
- SRE or reliability engineering experience at operationally excellent companies or high-growth startups; incident response leadership, chaos engineering, or performance optimization experience.
Pay
$203,500 USD to $248,500 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Datadog, Twilio, Stripe, AWS, Java, Scala, MySQL, PostgreSQL
AI focus
Use AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot, particularly context engineering, to enhance productivity.
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