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$230,000–$285,000/yr
US Canada

  • Own the technical vision, roadmap, and delivery of scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems for Workflow and Function Runtime primitives.
  • Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, being hands-on with architecture, code reviews, incidents, and driving operational excellence including SLOs and on-call.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain senior engineering talent, collaborating across product, security, and infrastructure groups to meet diverse workload needs.

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