Staff Software Development Engineer

What you'll do

• Design and deliver large-scale control plane and platform services, improving scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence.
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives, align stakeholders on architecture and execution, and resolve reliability, performance, and architectural issues.
• Set engineering standards through reviews and mentorship; apply emerging technologies, including Agentic AI and AI-assisted workflows, where appropriate.

What they ask for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and backend platform services.
• Deep expertise in system design, microservices architecture, API design, data modeling, and operating highly available, fault-tolerant production services.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Go, or Python, with a record of delivering production-grade software.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams, plus strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, observability, reliability engineering, and secure software development practices.

Nice to have

• Experience applying AI-forward engineering practices, such as developer copilots, intelligent automation, AI-assisted incident analysis, or ML/LLM-powered platform capabilities.
• Experience building mission-critical platform systems in SaaS or cybersecurity, with Kubernetes, PAM, or IGA; mentoring senior engineers is also valued.

Pay

$152,000 — $190,000 USD base salary

Tools

Java, Go, Python, Kubernetes, PAM, IGA, ML/LLM

AI focus

Explore and integrate AI tools into workflows; apply Agentic AI and AI-assisted engineering where appropriate. Preferred examples include developer copilots, intelligent automation, AI-assisted incident analysis, and ML/LLM-powered platform capabilities.