Senior Staff Engineer

Job Description

Location: SAUDI ARABIA / Riyadh

Must-have Skills: Resiliency, SRE

Good To Have Skills :

Job Description :

Role Overview: We are seeking a Technical Lead for Resilience Engineering to drive chaos engineering strategy, define best practices, and lead resilience initiatives across hybrid infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities

\* Define and own chaos engineering strategy and roadmap

\* Lead design of advanced chaos experiments (multi-layer: infra, network, application)

\* Mentor engineers in resilience and chaos practices

\* Standardize frameworks for automated chaos testing

\* Drive adoption of resilience practices across engineering teams

\* Collaborate with architecture teams to embed resilience into system design

\* Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets aligned with reliability goals

\* Lead game days/failure simulations

\* Drive observability maturity across systems

Required Skills

\* 7+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering

\* Strong expertise in Chaos Engineering (must-have)

\* Proven experience in designing custom chaos platforms or frameworks

\* Strong programming background (Python / Go preferred)

\* Deep experience with: * On-prem systems (primary)

\* Distributed systems architecture * Networking and failure injection

\* Observability leadership experience: * Metrics, tracing, logging strategies * Experience with hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud integration)

-Leadership Expectations

\* Ability to influence cross-functional teams

\* Define engineering standards and best practices

\* Drive cultural shift toward resilience-first engineering

Good to Have

\* Experience with large-scale enterprise systems

\* Exposure to compliance, DR, and BCP strategies

\* Kubernetes chaos testing experience