Staff Engineer | Engineering & Reliability

About the Position

Staff Engineer | Engineering & Reliability @ ING Bank

As a Staff Engineer – Engineering & Reliability, you will act as a senior technical leader and trusted engineering authority for ING Romania, helping local teams adopt global digital products, engineering standards, and reliability practices under the One Engineering System - 1ES umbrella.

You will be the technical bridge between the global Engineering & Reliability organization and local engineering teams, ensuring that global standards, platforms, golden paths, and reliability guardrails are understood, adopted, and continuously improved in the Romanian context.

Your mission is not only to solve complex technical problems but also to shape engineering direction, influence architecture decisions, uplift engineering maturity, and create scalable practices that help multiple teams build and run digital products safely, efficiently, and reliably.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical authority for Engineering & Reliability topics across ING Romania, supporting teams in adopting global standards, shared platforms, golden paths, and reliability engineering practices.
• Drive the adoption of One Engineering System - 1ES for local digital products, helping teams leverage common pipelines, observability, developer tooling, engineering controls, and platform capabilities in a consistent and scalable way.
• Serve as the link between global Engineering & Reliability and local engineering teams, translating global direction into practical local implementation patterns, while bringing local feedback and challenges back into the global conversation.
• Partner with engineering teams, architects, product owners, SREs, DevOps engineers, and platform teams to improve software delivery, system reliability, resilience, and operational quality.
• Define, promote, and mature engineering practices that support reliability by design, including automation-first delivery, observability, CI/CD quality gates, resilience validation, recovery patterns, and continuous improvement loops.
• Support the adoption of reliability practices across Critical Business Services and important digital journeys, including dependency mapping, failure mode identification, resilience pattern validation, observability correlation, and proactive risk identification.
• Provide deep technical guidance during architecture reviews, engineering assessments, incident follow-ups, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Help teams identify systemic reliability weaknesses and turn them into structural improvements, automation opportunities, or reusable engineering patterns.
• Promote SRE principles such as error budgeting, balanced risk management, toil reduction, service ownership, reliability indicators, and blameless learning.
• Drive engineering maturity across the full lifecycle: design, build, test, deploy, operate, observe, recover, and improve.
• Support the evolution of observability practices from monitoring dashboards to actionable engineering insight, enabling early detection, faster diagnosis, and better incident response.
• Contribute to the maturity of resilience engineering, including failure testing, chaos engineering concepts, fault injection, disaster recovery validation, and continuous reliability validation.
• Influence technology choices and engineering standards across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, pipelines, cloud platforms, and runtime environments.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, helping them grow their systems thinking, reliability mindset, and ability to design for scale, recoverability, and sustainability.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, documentation, training material, and internal enablement sessions so that engineering practices become reusable and scalable across teams.
• Bring a pragmatic engineering approach: focus on outcomes, reduce unnecessary complexity, support autonomous teams, and help make the right technical trade-offs.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, solution architecture, or reliability engineering.
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams, products, or domains.
• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud-native environments, and large-scale digital platforms.
• Experience driving engineering improvements beyond a single team or product area.
• Exposure to highly regulated, high-availability, or business-critical environments is an advantage.

Core Skills

• Distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Cloud-native technologies, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Microservices and API-driven architectures.
• CI/CD, automation, and modern software delivery practices.
• Observability, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Reliability engineering concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Resilience engineering, recovery patterns, and performance optimization.
• Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering.
• Database technologies and high-availability concepts.
• Software development using Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar languages.

Nice to Have

• Ability to simplify complex technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Confidence influencing without formal authority.
• Coaching and mentoring capabilities.
• Curiosity, pragmatism, and a continuous improvement mindset.

We Offer

• Impactful work in a fun, inclusive, and highly collaborative environment.
• Modern, open office spaces built for teamwork and creative work.
• Hybrid working model with flexibility baked in.
• Monthly benefit budget you can use your way.
• Extra paid vacation days based on total work experience.
• Continuous learning opportunities through ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, trainings, and certifications.
• Internal mobility across ING worldwide, including short- and long-term international assignments.
• Opportunities to contribute to sustainability and CSR initiatives.

About the Company

ING believes in a world where everyone should have the freedom to grow in their own way - our global tagline, “do your thing”, reflects this belief. We empower our people with autonomy and expect them to use it to create meaningful impact for customers, colleagues, and the organization.

Working here means being surrounded by energetic, ambitious, and supportive colleagues. We embrace curiosity, thrive on change, and continuously explore better ways of doing things.

With more than 30 years of presence in Romania, ING has been a pioneer in transforming the local banking landscape, driven by technology and innovation.

ING Bank Romania is the only bank in the local top 10 that has achieved its position through organic growth, without acquiring portfolios or other banks. We serve over 2.0 million clients across Retail, SME & Mid-Corporate, and Wholesale Banking.

Join us!

Apply now