Requirements
Requires 5+ years in SRE, platform, or backend engineering with production ownership of large-scale systems. Must have a track record of scaling systems through traffic spikes and running load/failure testing programs. Experience with AWS, Postgres performance/scaling, observability tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and scripting in Go, TypeScript, or similar is essential. Strong communication and systematic incident response skills are required.
Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
IT - Software & Web Development
Company Industry
Software & Internet Services
Your mission
Your mission is to make DigitalZone able to scale. You will build the platform's capacity to absorb campaign-level traffic spikes, and you will give every engineering team the tools, standards, and practices to load- and failure-test their own systems. This is an enablement role at its core: you raise the reliability bar across the organization by building capability, not by owning every service yourself.
What you'll do
Build the platform's scalability foundation: capacity planning, autoscaling, caching, queueing, and graceful degradation designed for large campaign spikes rather than steady-state load.
Establish load and failure testing as a standard engineering practice, giving teams the frameworks, tooling, and runbooks to test their own services and act on the results.
Own SLOs, error budgets, and the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) across TypeScript, Go, and PHP/Laravel services, and standardize how teams instrument for scale.
Harden Postgres and AWS infrastructure for performance and availability, and reduce toil through automation and infrastructure-as-code.
Lead incident response and blameless postmortems, and drive the systemic fixes upstream into design and campaign planning so reliability is built in, not bolted on.
Partner with engineering teams early on capacity and resilience, acting as the multiplier that makes them self-sufficient at scaling their own systems.
Requirements
What you'll bring
5+ years in SRE, platform, or backend engineering, with strong production ownership of large-scale systems operating at tens of thousands of requests per minute.
A track record of scaling systems through real traffic spikes, and of designing and running load and failure testing programs that other teams adopted.
Deep AWS experience and a solid grasp of Postgres performance and scaling.
Fluency with observability tooling and infrastructure-as-code, plus scripting in Go, TypeScript, or similar.
A calm, systematic approach to incidents, and the communication skills to influence and enable other teams rather than gatekeep.
Benefits
Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business.
Top-of-the-market compensation packages.
Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more.
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