Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Senior Staff Engineer responsibilities: A Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo is a technical (IC) leadership position. You will have company-wide influence, working with other collectives to grow Monzo. In this role you’ll be focused on improving our platform resilience. You’ll sit at the intersection of our platform and product engineering teams to make it easier for engineers to build resilient systems; improving our platform abstractions and tooling in the process. More specifically, you’ll: Expect to be hands on and deeply technical with code and infrastructure, using your software engineering and system building skills and expertise to lean in and solve deep technical challenges Partner with the Engineering Director for Platform and other ICs to provide technical leadership around resiliency across Monzo Build a deep understanding of our platform and then work to strengthen the reliability surface that sits between teams - building and enhancing the tools, patterns and guardrails that make resilient choices the easy ones Promote and maintain a culture where every engineer feels supported to design, build and operate reliable systems that work on a global scale Understand several work-streams across your group, keeping enough context to regularly provide technical advice and challenge to other engineers Use your expert knowledge and experience to lead architectural discussions for the most complex systems in the collective. You’ll do this in order to arrive at solutions that are robust and optimal given the context  Championing high standards by celebrating success and providing constructive feedback to help the team improve Foster a culture of quality within your collective. Proactively champion measures to test work, and make this easy Pro-actively mentor, sponsor and up-level engineers 🤩What we’re looking for… To succeed in this role, you will need a strong background in both modern platform tooling and practical software development. Software engineering foundations. You have significant professional experience in software engineering, demonstrated by writing, testing, and deploying robust backend services using strongly typed languages. Cloud and  container experience. You have hands-on experience working with AWS and/or GCP, and you are proficient with Kubernetes. We’re looking for someone with deep experience designing and maintaining global, resilient systems in the cloud. Automation and  Infrastructure as Code. You are naturally inclined to solve problems through automation and have experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform). System curiosity: You are deeply curious about systems, enjoy diving deep to investigate complex issues, and understand how modern distributed applications fail and scale. Platform mindset: You're excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at Monzo, focusing on reliability, performance, and developer experience.  Comfort with Ambiguity: You're comfortable working in a fast-paced team that deals with ambiguity and evolving requirements.