Shuttlebase
Staff Software Engineer
$190K–$260K
New York City · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years designing and shipping production systems.
About the job
Design and build the production systems that run AI-driven experiments on online stores, while setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.
What you'll do
- Design a fast, observable, reliable experiment engine that processes tens of millions of events daily.
- Build production systems that let AI choose and launch store changes, with safeguards, and shape event data for the behavior model.
- Set engineering direction through design docs and standards; support engineers through code review and pairing.
What they ask for
- 8+ years designing and shipping production systems.
- Experience designing data-intensive distributed systems, such as event-driven services, streaming pipelines, or data-heavy backends.
- Experience as a tech lead or staff engineer, including writing design docs, reviewing designs, and setting team standards.
- Strong Python skills and comfort with AWS and JavaScript across backend and frontend.
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse, LLMs or agents in production, eCommerce, or analytics infrastructure.
- Experience building a product from zero at a startup.
Pay
$190K – $260K USD base salary
Tools
Python, AWS, JavaScript, Postgres, ClickHouse
AI focus
Build production agentic AI systems that decide what to test on online stores, deploy changes with safeguards, and learn from experiment outcomes; shape event data for a human-behavior model.
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