Staff Site Reliability Engineer

📋 Description

• Define SLIs and SLOs for Fingerprint's critical request paths (identification, events, server APIs
• Introduce error budgets as the mechanism for balancing reliability investment against feature work
• Own the reliability metrics that leadership uses to judge progress; be the No Nonsense voice on
• Strengthen the incident lifecycle end to end: detection, response, communication, postmortem
• Close the "customers find out before we do" gap: drive alert quality, correctness anomaly
• Lead reliability reviews for high-risk changes and new services (production readiness, capacity

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years as an SRE, production engineer, or
• Deep experience with SLI/SLO design and error budgets in practice, including the hard part: getting
• Strong incident leadership: you have run incident response and postmortems for high-severity
• Hands-on depth in distributed systems failure modes — cache/database saturation and cascading
• Comfortable reading and writing production code (Go, TypeScript, or similar) and infrastructure as
• Track record of leading through influence: you have changed how teams you did not manage operate