Raydar
Staff Software Engineer
$217K–$410K
San Francisco, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Provides senior technical leadership for a major software platform domain, guiding architecture, engineering strategy, and delivery across teams.
What you'll do
- Guide system design and long-term strategy for data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work.
- Lead difficult engineering decisions, including build-versus-buy and cost tradeoffs, and establish shared engineering practices.
- Partner with product and engineering executives and routinely use AI coding assistants in development.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with steadily growing scope and responsibility.
- Hands-on experience operating high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production and strong system design skills for data-intensive, distributed architectures.
- Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies must have worked at least once in a startup.
- Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models; working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails; practical daily use of AI coding assistants; based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to work in-office 3 days per week.
Pay
USD 217,000 to 410,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby on Rails
AI focus
May guide AI-driven product work; requires experience building applications on large language models or deep database expertise, and routine use of AI coding assistants.
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