Senior Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Resilience

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team at Nubank, focusing on cloud resilience. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer remote, you will play a crucial role in our mission to empower customers by ensuring operational maturity as we expand globally. Your expertise will help bridge the gap between rapid scaling and robust resilience, making you the technical North Star for our Resilience area.

What You'll Do

• Define the technical strategy and long-term roadmap for reliability and resilience, aligning with global expansion and regulatory requirements.
• Drive resilience engineering by executing Chaos Engineering experiments and Disaster Recovery simulations to mitigate systemic vulnerabilities.
• Establish operational guardrails by implementing robust SLOs and SLIs across the organization, helping product teams balance innovation speed with system stability.
• Enable engineering teams by providing training and architectural patterns necessary for improving their independent operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and shape the long-term resilience strategy for one of the world's largest digital banks.

Requirements

• Expertise in cloud resilience with a track record of architecting and maintaining high-availability systems in public cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Deep experience in advanced root cause analysis and creating feedback loops that prevent incident recurrence.
• Hands-on experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in distributed microservices architectures.
• Real-world experience implementing Chaos Engineering and Disaster Recovery planning in production-scale environments.
• Experience setting technical direction and coordinating large-scale projects across multiple teams is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Familiarity with multi-region or multi-cell architecture patterns.

What We Offer

• 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
• Vacation benefits