Senior Staff Software Engineer – On-prem

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and advance the architecture of the self-hosted platform across various teams — including backend services, data pipelines, control logic, and the deployment topology provided to customers (containerized microservices on bare metal, delivered as an appliance/OVA) — while implementing enhancements to the existing architecture.

• Establish the benchmark for high availability and resilience in customer-managed deployments: including clustering, replication, failover, consensus/leader election, and graceful degradation across both single-node and multi-node configurations, while also driving infrastructure cost analysis and optimization.

• Formulate scalability and capacity-planning strategies that are applicable across a diverse range of customer scales and hardware, and create frameworks for performance, observability, and operational excellence in constrained and air-gapped environments.

• Spearhead the adaptation of SaaS/cloud-native capabilities into on-prem architecture, clarifying vaguely defined complex requirements into robust, future-proof end-to-end designs, and establish coding patterns and standards that cover multiple teams.

• Shape the engineering roadmap, lead medium-to-large initiatives that span teams, mentor both staff and senior engineers, and serve as a cross-team technical authority sought out for reviewing the work of others.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience, with approximately 8+ years of relevant experience and extensive hands-on expertise in Go and/or Python, along with technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Docker, and Linux.

• Significant, proven experience in designing and delivering on-prem / self-hosted / customer-deployed software, including packaging and lifecycle management for customer-controlled environments (appliance/OVA, bare-metal or containerized deployments, upgrades, and air-gapped or restricted networks).

• A strong history of architecting distributed systems for high availability and fault tolerance in on-prem / customer-controlled deployments — including replication, clustering, failover, and consensus/leader election — and being acknowledged as a subject-matter expert in one or more of these domains.

• Profound understanding of scalability and performance in on-prem deployments: encompassing horizontal/vertical scaling, sharding/partitioning, load balancing, capacity planning, and assessing technology trade-offs and costs across customer-controlled hardware and environments.

• The capability to transform vaguely defined, complex requirements into efficient, robust, future-proof end-to-end designs across teams; experience in influencing a roadmap and leading multi-team designs; as well as excellent communication and mentoring abilities. Experience with security products is a notable advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Flexible time off

• Paid company holidays and paid sick time

• Gender-neutral parental leave

• Grandparent leave

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Life and disability insurance

• Health and dependent care FSA

• Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• ARAG pre-paid legal

• Nationwide pet insurance

• Cancer Care program

• Global business travel medical insurance

• Home office allowance

• Mobile phone reimbursement

• Wellness coach

• Wellness/gym reimbursement

• Fertility coverage

• Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement