Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, development, and enhancement of scalable, dependable, high-performance distributed systems.

• Facilitate architectural discussions across various platform domains and engage in cross-domain architectural working groups.

• Contribute to the strategic long-term technical roadmap.

• Ensure that technical choices promote performance, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Integrate machine learning models and GenAI solutions into both existing and future products.

• Assess new AI infrastructure and development methodologies, advocating for beneficial adoption.

• Share expertise in distributed systems, cloud technologies, and artificial intelligence.

• Construct and sustain high-performance, reliable, and secure software systems.

• Produce testable, maintainable code and lead thorough code reviews.

• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and system reliability challenges.

• Develop tools and frameworks to enable faster and safer delivery by other engineers.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across global teams.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers at all experience levels.

• Foster knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and mentorship across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience in delivering production systems.

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 10 years of professional software development experience, showcasing leadership in technical direction and architecture.

• Proficiency in back-end development with two or more server-side languages, such as PHP, Go, Scala, Java, Python, or Ruby.

• Demonstrated experience in architecting, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, consistency, and fault tolerance.

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP and microservices architecture.

• Solid expertise with SQL, in-memory storage, and other data storage solutions.

• Experience in operating and monitoring services in production, utilizing observability tools such as Sentry, Kibana, or Datadog.

• Strong grasp of software design principles, testing strategies, and contemporary development practices.

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging abilities.

• Superior communication skills with the capacity to convey design decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proven history of technical leadership and mentorship.

• Experience in building product solutions utilizing LLMs and GenAI technologies is preferred.

• Familiarity with vector databases, model orchestration tools, inference frameworks, and cloud-native ML workflows is preferred.

• Experience with SaaS or multi-tenant platforms functioning at significant scale is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Optional collaborative workspaces in Austin, Atlanta, and London for team gatherings, workshops, and in-person connections.

• Potential eligibility for variable compensation such as bonuses or commissions.

• Potential eligibility for equity.

• Benefits aligned with local policies.

• An inclusive and accessible hiring experience.

• Identity verification conducted securely in compliance with applicable privacy laws.