Senior Staff Engineer, SRE

About this role

Responsibilities

• We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering to help drive the reliability and operational excellence of the Aiven platform globally. You will work closely with our SRE teams, helping set the technical direction and strategy to ensure resilient, scalable, and highly automated systems across our 24/7/365 operations.
• You will work hands-on with SRE and engineering teams on platform health, incident response and cross-functional coordination, and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance. As a senior technical leader, you will partner closely with engineering, product, and support teams worldwide, influence system architecture, and invest in tooling and automation to reduce toil and enhance production reliability.
• This role combines technical leadership, customer focus, and deep operational expertise, with a focus on delivering reliable services at global scale and helping teams solve some of our most challenging reliability problems.
• What You'll Do:Help define and drive global SRE operating strategy in partnership with regional SRE leaders across EMEA, AMER and APAC, ensuring alignment on reliability goals, operating models, and execution across a 24/7/365 follow-the-sun organization.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across our multi-regional SRE teams, working closely with SRE teams and engineers across geographies.
• Help set the vision and roadmap for reliability engineering, enabling teams to deliver high-impact tools, automation, and process initiatives that improve platform resilience, scalability, and efficiency.
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