Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hybrid

Nubank is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer

Nubank is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to be the technical North Star for our Resilience area, ensuring our systems scale with bulletproof reliability as we expand globally. You will act as a force multiplier, partnering with product squads to scale best practices and design safe deployment guardrails, empowering our customers.

What You'll Do

  • Lead the long-term roadmap for reliability and resilience to align with global expansion and regulatory requirements.
  • Execute Chaos Engineering experiments and Disaster Recovery simulations to mitigate systemic vulnerabilities before they impact customers.
  • Implement robust SLOs and SLIs across the organization to help product teams balance innovation speed with system stability.
  • Provide product squads with the training and architectural patterns necessary to improve their independent operational excellence.

What We're Looking For

  • Expertise in Cloud Resilience with a track record of architecting and maintaining high-availability systems in public cloud environments, preferably AWS.
  • Incident Lifecycle Mastery: Deep experience in advanced root cause analysis and creating feedback loops that prevent incident recurrence.
  • Observability Proficiency: Hands-on experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in distributed microservices architectures.
  • Chaos Engineering Practice: Real-world experience implementing Chaos Engineering and Disaster Recovery planning in production-scale environments.

Nice to Have

  • Experience setting technical direction and coordinating large-scale projects across multiple teams.
  • Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
  • Familiarity with multi-region or multi-cell architecture patterns.

Technical Stack

  • AWS

Benefits & Compensation

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Pension Plan
  • Extended maternity and paternity leaves
  • Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
  • NuLanguage - Our language learning program
  • NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
  • Vacations

Work Mode

This is a hybrid position based in Toronto, Canada.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Required Skills
AWSCloud ResilienceHigh-Availability SystemsRoot Cause AnalysisSLOsSLIsError BudgetsMicroservicesChaos EngineeringDisaster Recovery AWSCloud ResilienceHigh-Availability SystemsRoot Cause AnalysisSLOsSLIsError BudgetsMicroservicesChaos EngineeringDisaster Recovery
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About company
Nubank
Nubank is one of the largest digital banking platforms and technology-leading companies in the world, redefining people's relationships with money across Latin America through innovative technology and outstanding customer service.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago