Staff Software Engineer
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Job Description
The Staff Software Engineer is a technical leader who drives reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability across our systems. This role goes beyond feature delivery: you will shape architecture, mentor engineers, reduce operational toil, and help the organization see problems in metrics before customers experience them. /n /n You are expected to operate with high autonomy, strong judgment, and a bias toward durable solutions over quick fixes. /n /n This role is based on-site at our Scottsdale, AZ office. Please note that we do not currently have the capability to provide visa sponsorships of any kind. /n /n
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership /n /n
- Lead design and implementation of complex systems across frontend, backend, and infrastructure boundaries. /n
- Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and developer velocity. /n
- Set standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness. /n /n Engineering Execution /n /n
- Build and maintain web applications using React and TypeScript. /n
- Design and implement APIs and data models using Golang, Python, GraphQL, and Postgres. /n
- Drive CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code practices. /n
- Identify and eliminate sources of toil through automation and system improvements. /n /n Operational Excellence /n /n
- Proactively identify reliability risks using metrics, logs, and traces. /n
- Lead incident response and postmortems with a focus on systemic improvement. /n
- Champion observability using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. /n /n Mentorship & Collaboration /n /n
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers in technical skills and engineering judgment. /n
- Provide thoughtful, constructive code reviews. /n
- Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and long-term needs clearly to leadership. /n /n /n Requirements /n /n
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience /n
- Deep experience with modern web applications (React strongly preferred) /n
- Strong background in at least one typed language beyond TypeScript /n
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, and DNS /n
- Strong SQL skills (schema design, performance, complex queries) /n
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end /n
- A strong aversion to manual, repetitive toil (per Google SRE principles) /n /n /n Preferred Extras /n /n
- Golang in production systems /n
- Kubernetes and container orchestration /n
- Terraform and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) /n
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer /n
- Open-source contributions /n
- Code generation frameworks /n
- GraphQL schema design /n
- Linux internals and CLI tooling /n
- Experience with LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, and vector databases /n /n /n Salary Range – $170k-220k depending on capability level and industry experience
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