Senior Staff Engineer - job 2 of 5

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction for complex projects and systems, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reliability
• Mentor engineers across multiple teams, guiding them through design reviews, code reviews, and career development
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product managers, and designers to shape product strategy and execution

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with demonstrated impact in senior or staff-level roles
• Deep expertise in at least one area of the stack (backend systems, frontend architecture, infrastructure) and solid working knowledge across the others
• Proven experience designing and maintaining distributed, event-driven systems using technologies like Kafka and S3
• Proficiency with modern programming languages such as Go and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with ECS and Kubernetes for deploying and scaling containerized applications