Nubank
Financial Services
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-Reliability
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“Senior Software Engineer - Reliability at Nubank. Skills: Reliability engineering, Production hardening, Incident response. Define and operate against SLOs. Establish meaningful SLIs and SLOs”
Industry & Context.
Debug with code-level confidence; Diagnose production issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Track record of owning services in production, Experience defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs, Experience leading incident response, Hands-on experience with observability tooling, Deep system design experience, Significant industry experience building and operating production software systems, Comfort operating in modern cloud environments, Demonstrated technical leadership
Nice to Have
Experience with Kubernetes
What You'll Do.
Define and operate against SLOs
Establish meaningful SLIs and SLOs
Build the observability layer
Push instrumentation upstream
Lead incident response
Drive blameless postmortems
Turn findings into engineering work
Reduce toil through engineering
Identify repetitive operational work
Eliminate toil with software
Stress-test designs for partial failure
Run capacity and performance work
Ensure resiliency primitives are tuned
Make change safe and fast
Improve release safety
Help squad ship faster
Improve developer experience
Build or contribute fixes for tooling gaps
Partner across disciplines
Translate reliability and risk tradeoffs
Raise the engineering bar
Review hard designs and PRs
Shape technical standards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Product and engineering partners; Cross-discipline partners; Across teams
Communication Scope
Translate tradeoffs
Full Job Description
About Us Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 127 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Guided by our mission to fight complexity and empower people, we are redefining financial services in Latin America and this is still just the beginning of the purple future we're building. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human. Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Bank. Visit our institutional page https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/ About the role The U. S. Market team is launching a differentiated financial product in the largest and most demanding financial market in the world. We’re iterating quickly on real customer signals while building systems that will eventually serve customers at Nubank scale. That combination — early-stage velocity, regulatory weight, and high reliability expectations, requires an engineer whose primary mandate is reliability, scale, and operational excellence. This role exists to make sure the systems we’re building today can be trusted in production tomorrow, and to set the bar for what “production-ready” means on this team. The engineer in this role delivers their mandate by writing production code, shaping architecture, and engineering the systems themselves — not by absorbing operational load. You'll be responsible for Define and operate against SLOs. Establish meaningful SLIs and SLOs with product and engineering partners, manage error budgets, and use them as real inputs to prioritization rather than dashboards no one reads. Build the observability layer. Improve metrics, logs, traces, and alerting so issues are detected early, attributed precisely, and debugged with code-level confidence. Push instrumen
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