Staff Software Engineer (Hybrid, San Francisco)

What you'll do

• Own critical, ambiguous technical problems and multi-year architectural decisions across teams.
• Define executable technical strategy for the AI-and-agents rebuild and raise engineering standards across the organization.
• Multiply senior engineers’ impact through design, review, mentorship, and partnership with engineering and product leadership.

What they ask for

• Track record of setting technical direction that shaped a product or platform across an entire engineering organization.
• Depth in distributed systems and architecture, including reliability, scale, and cost tradeoffs.
• Judgment in ambiguous situations and influence to align multiple teams.
• Record of multiplying senior engineers’ impact, with current fluency in AI-assisted development and a clear point of view on AI’s impact on engineering.

Pay

$315,300 — $415,000 USD total cash compensation

Tools

React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Docker

AI focus

Set technical strategy for rebuilding the product around AI and agents; use AI agents for design, investigation, and implementation; define AI-native engineering practices and identify ways AI can reshape product development.