Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Lead the transition to General Availability.

• Shape the technical future of Explorer: provide guidance on technical priorities, dependencies, and complexity; propose and advocate for well-reasoned solutions with comprehensive documentation of trade-offs and alternatives.

• Advance a pilot implementation from limited release to general availability, which includes making initial architectural choices, validating technical assumptions, and refining towards a scalable design.

• Strengthen experimental systems for production readiness, focusing on reliability, performance, observability, testing, and operational excellence.

• Architect for the long term: design and construct systems and architectures that will support Explorer for years, prioritizing scale, reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Enhance and extend the existing code base: strengthen secure coding practices, detect vulnerabilities early, and prioritize data privacy and access control.

• Drive the test strategy, proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, and enhance quality improvements at the team level.

• Minimize technical debt, elevate system quality, and contribute to objectives that reach across the broader organization.

• Elevate the Team.

• Clarify ambiguity, navigate evolving requirements, and introduce structure and clarity without waiting for perfect specifications.

• Establish best practices for test strategy, code quality, and system design; elevate the technical standards across the organization through documentation, advocacy, and role modeling.

• Mentor senior engineers and assist emerging technical leads in developing the judgment, ownership, and skills necessary for growth; facilitate technical discussions, drive design consensus, and exemplify the standards expected from others.

• Embody the qualities of Ted Lasso: believe, foster trust, and demonstrate kindness, empathy, optimism, curiosity, and vulnerability.

• Lead Beyond Explorer.

• Set the technical direction across teams beyond Explorer; own objectives that span multiple teams and align with divisional and organizational goals; drive the strategy, planning, decision-making, and execution required for success.

• Lead major initiatives that involve multiple teams and systems; align both technical and non-technical stakeholders, clearly communicate trade-offs and risks, and represent engineering in cross-organizational discussions with product and leadership.

• Champion secure coding practices at a systemic level, identifying vulnerabilities across the product, and treat data privacy and access control as organization-wide priorities.

• Organize and lead incident responses, involving the appropriate personnel and delegating effectively; lead post-incident reviews including root cause analysis and actionable prevention items; ensure follow-through until learnings are shared and remediation is complete.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of professional software engineering experience showcasing full-stack fluency and a proven track record of delivering in production across diverse languages and technology stacks.

• Experience bringing a product from beta to general availability, managing the operational, quality, and cross-functional demands of a production launch.

• Demonstrated experience in promoting secure coding practices, data privacy principles, and access control patterns in production systems.

• A test-driven mindset with experience in writing, maintaining, and directing test strategy at the team or product level.

• A history of effective collaboration with product, data science, and R&D teams, bridging technical and domain-specific perspectives across various disciplines.

• Profound, hands-on expertise in critical technical domains with a proven ability to lead system design, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices; your solid technical judgment informs key decisions.

• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns; a strong understanding of the trade-offs between different event-driven architectures and the ability to justify one choice over another.

• Capability to reason across OLAP and OLTP data architectures and make sound design decisions for dependent systems.

• Comfort in making informed decisions with incomplete information; able to design long-term architectures with scale, reliability, security, and maintainability as key concerns, and clearly articulate the explored trade-offs and alternatives.

• Proficient in communicating and defending well-reasoned solutions through written documentation, sharing context, discussing considered alternatives, and clarifying conclusions reached.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and eligible family members.

• Retirement benefits that include a 5% employer match.

• A flexible unlimited PTO policy.

• Generous paid parental leave.

• Pre-tax commuter benefits.

• A company-provided laptop.

• A flexible remote work environment.

• A home office setup stipend for all new employees.

• Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses.

• An annual professional development fund.

• Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help.

• Yearly in-person staff retreats.

• A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.