Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vizcom is a visual creation platform that combines modern web tooling with AI-powered workflows. They are seeking a Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer to own service reliability and ensure the platform remains reliable, fast, and resilient as it scales.
Responsibilities
- Set and enforce SLIs/SLOs/error budgets for critical user flows
- Drive failure isolation across API, workers, queues, and dependencies so one subsystem cannot take down core access
- Define probe contracts, rollout/rollback standards, graceful shutdown behavior, scaling/resource policies, and startup safety
- Own poison pill containment and workload isolation
- Lead Sev1/Sev2 response end-to-end (containment, communications, technical direction, RCA, corrective action execution)
- Own observability quality (signals over noise), on-call effectiveness, runbooks, and postmortem discipline
- Gate risky deploys and enforce reliability guardrails when production health is at risk
Skills
- Experience with Kubernetes-based production infrastructure
- Proficiency in setting and enforcing SLIs/SLOs/error budgets
- Ability to drive failure isolation across API, workers, queues, and dependencies
- Experience defining probe contracts, rollout/rollback standards, and graceful shutdown behavior
- Knowledge of queue and job safety, specifically with BullMQ and Redis
- Experience leading incident response for Sev1/Sev2 incidents
- Strong skills in observability, on-call effectiveness, and postmortem discipline
- Ability to gate risky deploys and enforce reliability guardrails
- Calm and structured incident commander under pressure
- Ability to think in failure modes and blast radius
- Pragmatic approach to stabilizing systems quickly and implementing durable fixes
- High ownership and strong written communication skills
Company Overview
Building tools that shorten the distance between having ideas and bringing them to life. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, US, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.vizcom.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Vizcom has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.