Staff Software Engineer II

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

📋 Description

• Serve as a primary driver for advancing technical strategy and architectural development across various engineering sectors.

• Navigate critical cross-departmental challenges and establish architectural guidelines for the entire organization.

• Create robust technical foundations to support the company's goals for the next decade.

• Develop comprehensive architectural patterns for low-latency conversational experiences, multi-agent coordination, distributed event streaming, and real-time machine learning processing.

• Elevate the technical standards and transform vague business objectives into actionable execution plans.

• Implement engineering policies that empower teams to work with both high speed and reliability.

• Recognize long-term structural challenges and create architectural roadmaps to address them.

• Lead multi-quarter technical projects from their inception to achieving global impact.

• Collaborate with Engineering Directors, Tech Leads, and Staff Engineers.

• Mentor Senior and Staff Engineers while guiding technical guilds or working groups.

• Align self-directed teams on technical strategies and address complex technical disputes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in software engineering.

• Demonstrated success in architecting and delivering high-volume, high-concurrency, mission-critical distributed systems at an organizational level.

• Proven ability to create architectural roadmaps, shape engineering policies, and steer multi-team distributed systems through long-term technical development.

• Skill in breaking down ambiguous, organization-wide technical challenges into actionable plans while balancing reliability, cost, complexity, and speed trade-offs.

• Experience in formally mentoring Senior and Staff Engineers, enhancing the technical standards, leading technical guilds or working groups, and promoting an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.

• Competence in aligning multiple self-directed teams on cohesive technical strategies, facilitating structural discussions, and resolving technical disputes among teams and business units.

• In-depth architectural knowledge of distributed data consistency, asynchronous event-driven designs, fault tolerance, and data-intensive backends ready for high-throughput AI/ML integration.

• Proficiency in Portuguese and excellent English skills are mandatory.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with autonomous multi-agent systems, real-time LLM inference pipelines, large-scale data streaming ecosystems, legacy migrations, distributed architecture decoupling, cloud economics, FinOps, tech communities, open-source projects, or industry publications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Profit sharing.

• Meal allowance.

• Health insurance.

• Dental plan.

• Life insurance.

• Childcare subsidy and Atypical Parenthood subsidy.

• Wellhub.

• Home office allowance.

• Employee assistance program for mental health, social, legal, and financial support.

• Extended parental leave.

• Day off on birthday, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.

• Benefits Club offering discounts on everyday services.

• Discounts at educational institutions.

• Reading kit for children – PlayKids.

• Work From Anywhere program for up to 90 days a year.