Staff Software Engineer
OpenMined · United States · 4 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own the NSAI squad technical architecture end to end — align design, engineering, and deployment across stack to deliver reliable technical capabilities and user experience from current implementation through product roadmap evolution
- Drive production readiness through deployment monitoring, error handling, graceful degradation, and operational runbooks
- Be a force multiplier by establishing, demonstrating, and mentoring the team to establish norms around engineering best practices (including system design for modularity, security, reliability, & scalability), code quality, and delivery to production
- Collaborate on core technology stack strategy through architectural review and identification of NSAI components that should become shared organizational primitives and defining standard interfaces that prevent tight coupling
- Partner with product lead to develop and execute on realistic roadmaps that balance what is desired with what is feasible, scalable, and architecturally sounds
- Own the delivery of engineering's quarterly goals, ensuring consistent, high-impact delivery while effectively managing resources
- Create technical documentation and processes that support high velocity and knowledge transfer
- Manage a team of 2-4 engineers as a people leader, performing 1:1s, providing technical and professional feedback, creating professional development plans, and performing performance reviews
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of personally building, shipping, and operating production systems at meaningful scale
- Strong Python proficiency — FastAPI, async patterns, Docker orchestration
- Vue 3 / TypeScript, Rust / Tauri, or cross-platform desktop app experience extremely beneficial
- Networking/P2P application experience beneficial
- Distributed systems and API design experience including design & evolution of interfaces consumed by multiple independent teams
- Practical RAG and information retrieval experience with vector databases, retrieval pipelines, embedding strategies, and aggregation
- Demonstration of technical leadership through the introduction of engineering quality practices to one or more teams
- Comfort with ambiguity and resource constraints
- Async-fluent with strong written communication and capacity to build high-trust working relationships across 6hr+ time zone spread
- Cross-functional collaboration & communication to facilitate and improve understanding/context sharing between engineers and non-engineering/non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- US Healthcare Benefits
- Mission-Driven Work
- Open Source Contribution
- Collaborative Global Team
- Flexible Work Hours
- Work from anywhere in the world—no office or commute required
- Results-Driven Culture
- Competitive Compensation