Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (HYBRID)

About the role

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Staff Engineer to join our engineering organization and drive technical excellence across our platform. This is a pivotal role for a seasoned engineer who combines deep hands-on expertise with the ability to influence technical direction at the organizational level.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision for infrastructure and AI-powered systems across the organization
• Design, architect, and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Lead technical decision-making on critical projects, balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability
• Establish and champion engineering best practices, design patterns, and coding standards
• Architect and optimize compute infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Design and implement database solutions (relational and NoSQL) that scale to meet business demands
• Ensure system reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all platform components
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply AI/ML to solve high-impact business problems
• Mentor and grow senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Conduct design reviews and provide constructive feedback on technical proposals
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and business stakeholders
• Lead complex, ambiguous projects from conception through delivery
• Drive pragmatic trade-offs between technical debt, velocity, and quality
• Contribute hands-on to critical codebases when needed
• Champion operational excellence and incident management best practices

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in infrastructure systems, including compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services), networking, and storage
• Strong database experience across relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
• Demonstrated experience applying AI to solve real-world problems in production environments
• Expert-level proficiency in at least two programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Rust)
• Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure OR AWS) and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and deployment automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD)
• Background in building real-time data processing systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Experience working in a platform engineering team, building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services
• Experience 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of increasing technical scope and impact
• 5+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• Experience in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of experience with one of the public clouds - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• Experience working in a platform engineering team, building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services

Pay

$130,000.00 - $260,000.00

Schedule

Full-time