Staff Software Engineer

As a Staff Engineer, you'll act as a technical anchor for the business, taking long-term accountability for the technical health and strategic direction of different domains. You'll enter the engineering interview process through a pooled hiring model, focusing on your core strengths and technical craft, before transitioning into a team-matching phase that pairs your skills and interests with the most impactful strategic challenges. You'll navigate ambiguous and poorly defined problems, breaking them into navigable paths for the rest of the organization. You'll identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems, driving architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability. You'll use your cross-functional expertise to align multiple teams on major technical decisions, help define how AI tools are safely and effectively used across the company, and mentor senior engineers to elevate the collective engineering craft.

Responsibilities

• Navigate ambiguous and poorly defined problems, breaking them into navigable paths
• Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems
• Drive architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability
• Align multiple teams on major technical decisions using cross-functional expertise
• Define the context and rails that allow the organization to leverage AI tools safely and effectively
• Set the vision for operational excellence
• Mentor senior engineers to raise the collective craft of the organization

Requirements

• Expertise in building distributed systems
• Comfort guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)
• Ability to lead through influence rather than authority
• Ability to anticipate future roadblocks and build systems that support long-term business growth
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of high-level technical leadership

Benefits

• Equity for all full time roles
• Exceptional benefits