Software Engineering Technical Lead

We are looking for a Technical Lead to drive the architectural direction and engineering excellence of this group. This is a senior, deeply hands-on role for a technology leader who can own the technical roadmap, mentor a team of elite engineers, and build the infrastructure that challenges platform to its theoretical limits.What You'll Lead:Define and own the technical architecture of the group's distributed testing and reliability platform - designing for massive scale, real-world workload simulation, and adversarial failure injectionLead effort involving multiple engineers, setting technical standards, running architecture reviews, driving design decisions, and mentoring engineers to growBuild the systems that orchestrate millions of concurrent IO operations, inject chaos at the infrastructure layer (latency, packet loss, hardware failures), and expose the hardest-to-find race conditions and consistency bugsAdvance AI-driven approaches to test automation: intelligent scenario generation, LLM-augmented root-cause analysis, and autonomous validation pipelinesDrive observability and reliability engineering across the group - building telemetry pipelines that track P99 latency, jitter, and system health, turning quality into a quantitative disciplineCollaborate deeply with Core R&D, Storage Kernel, and Infrastructure teams - translating architectural knowledge into targeted reliability strategiesEstablish engineering practices - design docs, production-grade code reviews, testing philosophy, and cross-team technical alignmentRequirements: Strong software engineering background with 6 years of hands-on Python development experience is required. The ability to read, debug, and reason about C , Rust, or Go is a significant advantageDeep understanding of distributed systems: concurrency, consistency models, fault tolerance, and large-scale system behavior under stressBackground in one or more of: storage systems, networking (TCP/IP, RDMA), cloud infrastructure, database internals, or high-performance backend systemsExperience building large-scale infrastructure platforms, internal developer platforms, or reliability engineering systemsLeadership:Proven track record leading complex technical initiatives from architecture through deliveryExperience mentoring and growing engineers - raising the technical bar of a team, not just directing workAbility to drive technical alignment across teams, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and make high-quality architectural decisions at speedComfortable operating at both the strategic and hands-on level - you write code, review designs, and shape roadmapsPrevious experience in people management roles - AdvantageMindset:You approach quality through the lens of Site Reliability Engineering: you care about MTTD, observability, and building self-healing systemsYou have a "hacker" instinct - you don't just find bugs; you find the architectural flaws that allowed them to existYou are an early adopter of AI tools and excited about applying LLMs and generative AI to accelerate engineering velocityBig AdvantagesExperience with storage systems, file systems, or high-performance distributed environmentsBackground in chaos engineering, fault injection, or simulation systemsFamiliarity with observability tooling and performance engineering at scaleExperience building testing or reliability platforms as first-class engineering productsPrior experience as a Team Lead in a high-growth infrastructure companyThis position is open to all candidates.