Staff Software Engineer, Systems

Syllo is on a mission to transform litigation with a unified litigation platform. The Staff Engineer will take ownership of cloud costs, driving improvements across the engineering organization while fostering a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own cloud cost efficiency end-to-end by championing FinOps initiatives that drive cost visibility, accountability, and sustained reductions in unit cost as we scale
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship especially around socializing the FinOps mindset across the broader Engineering team
• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud-based infrastructure using Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, and other relevant technologies
• Collaborate with our AI team to optimize data pipelines and integrate AI technologies to remove performance bottlenecks
• Refactor existing systems to enhance scalability, including transforming stateful components into stateless ones, and applying extensive autoscaling and auto-repair mechanisms
• Drive platform reliability initiatives, including enhancing alerting, health checking, and incident management
• Ensure the platform meets rigorous testing and security standards to maintain data integrity and security
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure meeting SLAs

Requirements:

• Demonstrated success leading FinOps or cloud cost-optimization initiatives including establishing cost governance, driving cross-functional adoption, and delivering quantifiable savings at scale
• Core software engineering skills, including proficiency in languages such as Python and Ruby
• Strong system administration experience, including fluency with Linux, networking, and bash scripting
• Proficiency with GCP
• Proficiency with cloud tools and distributed systems, such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, and Elasticsearch, or equivalent technologies
• Ability to design and implement scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience addressing scaling challenges and resource contention in distributed systems
• Expertise in cloud data security