Senior Staff Engineer

Position Expectations

• Work closely with research, product management, product engineering, product design, peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
• Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
• Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
• Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects

Qualifications

• Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems
• 15+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java
• Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
• Experience leading 15-20 people projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to successful delivery or experience working through multiple staff engineers in different squads and leading the successful delivery of the projects
• Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
• Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (eg. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
• Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
• Eager to learn, with a strong technical background