Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the architectural and technical decisions for Greyspace, specifying service boundaries, data ownership, API contracts, and failure behavior.

• Create and implement services that configure, deploy, and manage simulated internet environments.

• Take ownership of essential implementation tasks and transform prototypes into maintainable, tested software solutions.

• Develop realistic behaviors for networks and applications encompassing DNS, certificates, routing, web, and mail services.

• Validate comprehensive workflows from a range host through simulated services and back.

• Create reusable services while managing configuration, credentials, mutable states, and faults independently.

• Conduct tests to ensure containment and prevent unintended access between environments or live networks.

• Define versioned integration contracts in collaboration with platform, range, and emulation teams.

• Collaborate on operator workflows for configuration, readiness checks, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.

• Translate training requirements into prioritized use cases, acceptance criteria, and incremental delivery plans.

• Lead the scoping and estimation processes and validate high-risk decisions through focused technical proofs.

• Enhance reliability through automated integration tests, observability, performance testing, recovery procedures, and validation of deployments and upgrades.

• Guide design and code reviews while addressing cross-service technical risks.

• Establish engineering standards that promote reliable delivery.

• Mentor senior engineers through hands-on collaboration.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

• Currently serving as a Staff or Senior Software Engineer.

• Proven track record in building distributed applications, platform services, or networked systems.

• Experience in leading technically complex projects across multiple teams.

• Capability to design, build, and deliver production-grade distributed services throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and TLS.

• Hands-on experience in diagnosing behaviors across application, service, and network boundaries.

• Experience in designing multi-tenant or distributed systems with well-defined isolation, state management, API boundaries, and failure recovery processes.

• Proven ability to influence technical standards and architectural decisions across various teams.

• Strong judgment in scoping and estimation.

• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex architecture, networking behaviors, and engineering trade-offs.

• Proficient in a modern backend programming language.

• Familiar with software engineering practices, including API design, service decomposition, automated testing, code review, and CI/CD.

• Hands-on experience with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes, encompassing service deployment and troubleshooting.

• Comfortable operating amidst uncertainty and shaping a loosely defined roadmap.

• Experience in security-sensitive or compliance-driven settings, such as DoD, FedRAMP, or SOC 2, is highly advantageous.

• Familiarity with cyber ranges, simulations, or internet service infrastructure is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonuses linked to company performance and individual contributions.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Savings plans with coverage beginning on the first day of employment.

• Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources provided through Spring Health.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Dedicated health and wellness days.

• Flexible work-life solutions.

• Paid parental leave.

• Equity stock options granted upon hiring.

• Annual performance-based equity grants.

• Employee referral bonuses ranging from $1,500 to $3,500 for each qualified hire.

• Full- and partial-subsidized Peloton membership options.

• Discounts on Peloton equipment.

• Membership to LinkedIn Learning.

• Monthly reimbursements for meaningful interactions with teammates through SocialSpace Community.

• Legal plan coverage.

• Pet insurance options.

• Wellness reimbursements.