Senior Staff Software Engineer- Remote (US Based)

Requirements

• Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from architecture and planning through implementation and delivery.
• Drive technical decision-making for systems that span application, infrastructure, networking, and cloud environments.
• Contribute to architectural direction, scalability planning, reliability improvements, and operational maturity across the platform.
• Debug and resolve complex production and infrastructure issues across distributed systems.
• Partner with engineering leadership to evolve development practices, testing strategies, deployment workflows, and operational standards.
• Produce technical proposals, architecture documents, and implementation plans that align teams around execution.
• Mentorship & Collaboration
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, system design discussions, and collaborative problem solving.
• Help raise engineering quality through thoughtful feedback, documentation, and strong technical execution.
• Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable customer outcomes.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of leading complex technical projects involving multiple engineers.
• Strong proficiency in software development across multiple languages and paradigms.
• Comfortable using coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) as part of your daily workflow.
• Solid understanding of network architecture including routing, switching, VPN protocols, DNS, and firewalls.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud networking constructs such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, transit gateways, and private endpoints.
• Experience working with distributed systems including databases, caches, queues, event-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical efforts and drive projects through ambiguity to delivery.
• Experience creating technical designs, architecture proposals, and implementation documentation.

Bonus Points

• Strong judgment around reliability, security, privacy, and operational resilience in production systems.
• Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, IEC 62443, or similar.
• Previous startup or high-growth company experience.