Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Job requirements

• 10 or more years of professional software engineering experience, several of them at senior level or beyond.

• Deep expertise in at least one domain, for example distributed systems, databases and storage, networking, data engineering, or applied AI systems, at the level where you are the person others come to.

• A record of technical influence beyond your own team, where the outcome depended on people you did not manage.

• Coaching at scale. Be ready to name engineers who grew because of you, and to describe what changed in how they work.

• Evidence of multi-year technical judgement: a direction you set, why you set it, and how it held up afterwards.

• Excellent written communication. Your design documents persuade people who were not in the room, and remain useful a year later.

• Experience owning systems in production, including operations, on-call, and incident response.

• A customer centric approach, and the discipline to check that a design makes someone's work easier rather than assuming it does.

• Comfort with ambiguity, including the judgement to say that something should not be built.

• Experience at a company scaling quickly, where the architecture had to change as it grew.

• Experience with high volume data pipelines, streaming systems, or telemetry and time series data.

• Experience putting machine learning or LLM systems into production.

• Experience working close to physical infrastructure, where the software must account for hardware that fails.

• Open source contributions, published work, or talks in your domain.

Job responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of an area spanning several teams, on a horizon measured in years rather than quarters.

• Raise the level of engineers across the organisation: design and architecture review beyond your own team, pairing on hard problems, and writing that teaches.

• Deliver large pieces of work by growing the engineers who build them, rather than building everything yourself.

• Take on the problems that cross team boundaries and that no single team owns, including the ones nobody has escalated yet.

• Write the design documents and technical standards other teams build against.

• Be the company's depth in your domain, and make that depth available rather than holding it.

• Prototype to settle open questions, so decisions rest on evidence rather than on argument.

• Stay hands on. Write and review code, debug production problems, and carry the pager for what you own.

• Find where the organisation is slow, and fix the technical causes of it.

• Work with engineering managers and product on planning and sequencing, including what the organisation should stop doing.

Job benefits

• The expected base salary for this role USD $184,000 – $276,000/annum. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, and market data for the region.

• Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, and market data for the region.

• Total Compensation package may be inclusive of annual incentive bonus, equity (long-term incentive).

• Relocation or Living-out-allowance / per diem (as appliable and based on successful candidate circumstances)

• 100% company paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental, and vision) for employees, 75% company paid coverage for dependents

• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance

• Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available

• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) – when combined with the High Deductible Health Plan

• Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Access to financial planning and legal services

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

• Internal skills training and advancement pathways

• Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training

• Company events and team-building activities