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by 946789987649 879 days ago
I would say you need to acknowledge and talk to the engineer. They will be stressed and upset, highlighting there is no blame will ease that.
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They'll also be the person most able to identify what went wrong with your processes to allow the failure to occur and think through a mechanism to systematically avoid it happening again.

Also, they're probably the person least likely to make that class of mistake again. If you can keep them, you've added a lot of experiential value to your team.