Senior Staff Software Engineer - 260421-5

Position Summary

The **Senior Staff Software Engineer **will provide technical leadership in designing and evolving large-scale, distributed systems and platform architectures across multiple teams and organizational domains. This role will drive long-term technical strategy, architectural modernization, AI-enabled engineering practices, and platform capabilities while improving system reliability, scalability, developer productivity, and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed systems and platform architectures to ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and extensibility.
• Define and guide technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives and product goals.
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development practices and AI-enabled capabilities to improve engineering effectiveness, product innovation, and measurable business outcomes.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems and domains while driving technical alignment and successful execution.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate systemic technical risks while advancing system reliability, observability, performance, and operational maturity.
• Define and drive strategies for reducing technical debt, modernizing legacy systems, and improving platform architecture across the organization.
• Develop and promote shared platform capabilities, services, tooling, and engineering practices that improve developer productivity and system consistency.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, influence technical direction, and promote a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and high-quality system design.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience driving technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams or organizational domains.
• Deep experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale distributed systems, platform architectures, and cloud-based production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud-native architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and cost optimization.
• Proven ability to navigate complex and ambiguous environments, influence technical stakeholders, and drive alignment and execution across teams without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with **.NET full-stack and API development **across frontend and backend technologies, with proficiency in **Rust, C#, **and/or JavaScript.
• Extensive experience with **distributed systems, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, **and **infrastructure-as-code tools **such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep.
• Deep expertise in observability, monitoring, distributed tracing, incident response, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
• Experience with modern authentication and **authorization technologies, **including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML, as well as secure coding and security architecture practices.
• Strong knowledge of **CI/CD, automated testing, progressive deployment strategies, **and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and the architectural considerations involved in designing systems at scale.
• Demonstrated experience driving engineering productivity, platform improvements, technical modernization, and AI adoption across multiple teams or organizational domains.