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Staff Software Engineer, Reliability

Metropolis · Washington DC

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In brief

Metropolis is hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Reliability in Washington DC.

Duties

  • Own the overall reliability posture for the Metropolis platform, establishing practices, metrics, and systems that ensure 99.9%+ uptime across all…
  • Design and implement automatic failover mechanisms for critical external dependencies like Twilio for SMS/voice and Stripe for payments with circuit…
  • Architect and build active-passive or active-active regional deployment strategies with database replication, automated failover, and DNS-based…

Required profile

  • Metropolis is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on Reliability to own reliability across the entire Metropolis platform and drive the…
  • In this role, you will build reliability from first principles, architecting failover systems, implementing chaos engineering, and improving our…
  • As the technical owner of our reliability posture, you will tackle challenges like external service failover, dependency mirroring, and database…

Excerpt from the ad

Who we are The real world is the next frontier, and at Metropolis, we are creating the artificial intelligence to make it responsive. We are pioneering the Recognition Economy — a future where mundane repetition…

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