Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Shared Services

The role

You will lead the Shared Services team to build and operate systems for research, training, and production environments. You will mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and make technical contributions to the stack.

What you will do

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of systems engineers.
• Provide front-line leadership of engineering efforts for distributed systems, container and Kubernetes abstraction layers, and service platforms.
• Make targeted contributions as an individual contributor.
• Prioritize the team's work and manage projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Guide technical and architectural decisions regarding scalability, robustness, and reliability.
• Work with research and training teams to co-design primitives and translate needs into platform investments.
• Raise the bar for technical judgment, prioritization, communication, and execution.

Required qualifications

• Experience building, mentoring, and growing engineering teams while staying technically hands-on.
• Deep distributed-systems engineering experience with real ownership of production-grade systems at scale.
• Strong coding ability.
• Depth in at least one core area: distributed systems architecture, service reliability, or the container/service platform.
• Fluency with the reliability toolkit: SLIs/SLOs, on-call, sharding and replication, coordination services, and tail-latency optimization.
• Ability to guide strategy and drive execution in a zero-to-one environment.
• Ability to partner effectively with research and training teams.

Benefits

• Salary and equity
• Stock options
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life
• Annual wellness allowance
• Lunch and dinner provided in the office daily
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys
• Unlimited paid time off in the U.S.
• 30 days paid time off in the U.K.
• Visa sponsorship support
• Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations

Before you apply

• This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
• Offers may be conditioned on the ability to provide access to technology or source code in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

About the company

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. They build open models to help shape the future of AI.