Software Technical Leader
Mercado Libre5 days ago
Governador Valadares, BrazilStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical operation and operational readiness of high-traffic events through capacity validation, contingency planning, production-readiness criteria, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Connect Product, Marketing, Engineering, and Infrastructure by translating business needs into clear, feasible, and operable technical requirements.
- Lead strategic resilience initiatives and technical incident and degradation response, including decision-making, communication, and safe service recovery.
- Improve observability, failure detection, and automated self-healing to reduce manual intervention.
- Serve as a technical reference for engineering teams and promote resilient, scalable architecture and a shared culture of reliability and operational readiness.
Requirements
- Solid experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or an equivalent technical role, including at least two years leading technical initiatives or managing critical initiatives.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure such as AWS and GCP, and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python and practical experience with version-control tools such as GitHub.
- Expertise with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Kibana, and New Relic.
- Ability to technically lead multidisciplinary initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and coordinate teams in highly critical scenarios.
- Experience with generative AI and LLMs applied to the development lifecycle, including automation, code review, and incident analysis, and a history of improving reliability and resilience by reducing MTTD and MTTR are differentiators.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with an office in Osasco, São Paulo.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Mercado Libre
Mercado Libre builds an e-commerce marketplace and fintech infrastructure for consumers and merchants across Latin America. It monetizes through marketplace transaction fees, payment processing (Mercado Pago), logistics and fulfillment (Mercado Envíos), advertising, and credit products. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, it operates in 18 countries and is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker MELI.