Senior Staff Engineer

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