Senior Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Achieve desired results.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to jointly execute complex projects related to platform modernization, product enhancement, and new product initiatives.

• Modify your approach to align with the demands of the work, whether the focus is on speed, scale, or sustainable maintainability.

• Employ AI-native development methodologies to create automation, validation, and engineering frameworks that enhance quality and efficiency.

• Assist in establishing thoughtful code review and pre-production quality methods that facilitate swift and reliable delivery.

• Implement technical strategy.

• Guide the technical direction for significant, cross-team initiatives in alignment with the long-term platform strategy.

• Design systems that harmonize flexibility, scalability, and maintainability.

• Anticipate future limitations and refine architecture before issues escalate.

• Detect and address performance, reliability, and architectural constraints.

• Propel early-stage exploration for undefined challenges, including efforts where clarity emerges through prototyping and development.

• Develop AI systems and platform enablement.

• Construct infrastructure that integrates AI into engineering processes.

• Design tools and patterns that minimize manual tasks through automation and intelligent support.

• Establish safeguards that ensure safe and reliable AI-assisted development.

• Help define system behaviors by gathering specifications from code, tests, logs, and individuals closest to the work.

• Influence and lead.

• Elevate the technical capabilities of the teams around you.

• Foster alignment among teams and influence critical technical decisions.

• Reduce uncertainty and assist teams in making quicker, better-informed decisions.

• Create lasting documentation such as runbooks, decision logs, and tests that can be passed on and further developed by others.

• Share insights across product domains to enhance problem-solving effectiveness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in building and scaling enterprise software systems.

• Experience in leading technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams.

• Hands-on expertise with agentic AI development, including delivering tangible results with AI as a core development partner.

• Proven ability to drive high-impact initiatives across various teams.

• Experience in enhancing engineering quality through practices like TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, mutation testing, or similar methodologies.

• Strong systems thinking and judgment, with an understanding of second-order effects.

• Demonstrated proficiency in at least two delivery modes: platform modernization, iterative product evolution, and ambitious greenfield development.

• Capacity to act as a force multiplier for fellow engineers.

• Expertise in a domain that significantly enhances system design or developer experience.

• Proven experience functioning at Staff+ level across multiple teams or domains.

• Solid background in distributed systems and platform architecture.

• Experience in deriving behavioral specifications from existing systems through code, tests, logs, and input from subject-matter experts.

• Ability to deliver production-quality results in a small, time-constrained team environment.

• Excellent written communication skills and a practice of creating valuable, enduring documentation.

🏝️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically awarded annually.

• Restricted Stock Units granted at the time of hire.

• 401(k) matching and a comprehensive employee benefits package.