About the position
We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of scalable, high-impact applications and services that power our platform. In this role, you’ll work across the stack and across teams to deliver delightful solutions to our rapidly growing customer base. We serve some of the most data-driven technology organizations in the world, enabling them to build data products that ultimately enable better decision-making using trusted, well-governed data. Your work will directly impact our mission by improving the scalability, security, and usability of our platform for thousands of data practitioners. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll set technical direction, collaborate across multiple teams, mentor engineers, and drive best practices that elevate engineering excellence across the company.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain full stack applications that scale with our growing customer base.
- Lead technical architecture discussions, ensuring the platform is performant, maintainable, and secure.
- Tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems with strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals.
- Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability and performance.
- Work closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Security teams to deliver well-architected solutions.
- Define and drive best practices in testing, observability, and system reliability.
- Mentor engineers across the company, fostering technical growth and collaboration.
- Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation, influencing engineering direction across multiple teams or domains.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a software engineer developing SaaS platforms and applications at scale.
- Proven experience designing and scaling full stack applications.
- Proficiency with backend languages and frameworks such as Python, Go, Rust, django, Node.js, Java, Spring.
- Strong understanding of API design, system architecture, and database management.
- Experience leading complex projects and driving cross-functional collaboration.
- A systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, and a sense of ownership.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks including React and TypeScript.
- Experience working with data engineering tools or data processing pipelines.
- Background in performance optimization and observability tools like Datadog.
- Experience working on distributed, remote-first teams.
Benefits
- Compensation: 201,000 - 271,000 USD.
- Equity Stake.
- Unlimited PTO (and we encourage you to use it!).
- 401k with a 3% guaranteed contribution.
- Excellent healthcare coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Wellness and home office stipends.
