Raydar
Staff Software Engineer
$240K–$295K
San Francisco, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Authorization to work is required.
About the job
Provides technical leadership across engineering groups while designing and coding backend-leaning services and owning complex infrastructure initiatives from planning through release.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction, design systems, and write production code across multiple engineering groups.
- Lead complex initiatives and infrastructure projects from scope and planning through delivery.
- Partner with engineering managers on technical direction and develop colleagues through code and design reviews.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Current or prior Staff, Principal, or Lead Engineer title, or technical engineering manager willing to return to hands-on individual contributor work.
- Backend-leaning full-stack experience with Python, TypeScript, and modern web front-end tooling.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another technical field; authorization to work and ability to start immediately.
Nice to have
- Experience with data platforms or core infrastructure.
- Experience in the AI agent space, excluding pure AI/ML research.
Pay
$240K - $295K (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript
AI focus
Experience in the AI agent space is a bonus; pure AI/ML research is excluded.
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