Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer

About the Role

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. This is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people work together to help customers see the world differently and, in doing so, be seen differently. To be eligible, you must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee). Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws.

As a Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer, you will serve as the product-level technical authority across multiple engineering teams. You’ll lead architecture, integration, technical tradeoffs, and delivery of a product or major product evolution, bridging Product and Engineering to validate customer needs, translate them into system architecture, and guide technical decisions throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for a product or major product evolution.
• Define system architecture and technical direction spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with Product Management to validate customer needs and ensure planned capabilities solve the right customer problem.
• Lead architecture reviews, trade studies, and major technical decisions affecting product evolution.
• Drive system decomposition, interface definition, integration planning, and release sequencing.
• Balance technical, operational, lifecycle, and delivery tradeoffs across teams and releases.
• Identify and manage architectural, integration, schedule, and operational risks across the product lifecycle.
• Resolve cross-team technical conflicts and remove engineering friction.
• Establish engineering practices that improve consistency, quality, and delivery across teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leadership throughout the organization.
• Guide products from concept through integration, validation, operational readiness, and customer deployment.
• Apply AI to accelerate architecture and systems analysis, identify integration and operational risks earlier, improve requirements validation, and scale systems engineering practices to support AI-enabled development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience designing and delivering complex software-intensive systems.
• Experience serving as a technical lead across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and technical trade studies.
• Experience managing system integration and cross-team technical dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical issues spanning multiple organizations.
• Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, customers, and senior leadership.

Skills

• Systems Thinking: Understand complex software systems as interconnected products rather than isolated components, reasoning across architecture, interfaces, dependencies, operational workflows, constraints, and emergent behavior.
• Software Architecture: Experience designing and evolving large software-intensive systems, including distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, data architecture, resiliency, observability, scalability, security, and operational readiness.
• Technical Leadership: Influence through technical judgment rather than organizational authority, build alignment across multiple teams, facilitate difficult engineering decisions, and guide organizations through ambiguity.
• Customer and Product Orientation: Understand customer missions well enough to challenge assumptions, validate evolving requirements, and keep engineering effort aligned with customer outcomes.
• Learning Agility: Repeatedly develop expertise in unfamiliar technical domains, synthesize input from specialists, and make sound engineering decisions across multiple disciplines.

Preferred Experience

• Cloud-native platforms and Kubernetes.
• Event-driven and distributed architectures.
• AI-assisted software development workflows.
• Systems-of-systems engineering.
• High-availability or mission-critical software.
• Platform engineering.
• Operational readiness and production deployment.
• Model-based or digital systems engineering.

What Success Looks Like

• Deliver technically sound products across multiple releases.
• Enable independent engineering teams to function as one cohesive product organization.
• Resolve technical conflicts before they become delivery risks.
• Improve engineering decision quality across multiple teams.
• Develop other technical leaders.
• Balance customer needs, architecture, schedule, cost, and operational risk.
• Ensure delivered capabilities solve validated customer problems rather than simply implementing requested features.

Pay

Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions. The base pay range for this position is:

• Colorado: $128,000 - $170,000 - $187,000 annually.
• Other U.S. states: Geographic cost of labor is used to develop market-driven ranges.

This position is also incentive eligible, with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.

Benefits

Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package, including:

• Robust 401(k) with company match.
• Mental health resources.
• Student loan repayment assistance.
• Adoption reimbursement.
• Pet insurance.