What the job involves

• We are looking for an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical force multiplier across the organization. This role focuses on tackling the most ambiguous, complex, and high-leverage engineering challenges that span multiple teams and domains
• Your impact will be measured not just by the code you write, but by your ability to define the future state of our systems, drive massive, cross-cutting projects to completion, and significantly elevate the technical capabilities and standards of the entire engineering department
• Define the Future: Own the long-term technical vision and strategy for major components of our platform, anticipating future scale, security, and product needs a year or more out
• Decouple and Scale: Design and champion new system architectures that focus on clear, stable interfaces and domain decoupling to accelerate the velocity of multiple feature teams
• Standard Setter: Establish and improve engineering excellence standards, including best practices for code quality, documentation, and the non-functional requirements (performance, reliability) that systems must meet
• Drive Multi-Team Programs: Proactively identify, define, and lead complex, ambiguous, and high-risk technical programs (e.g., major platform refactors, organizational-level reliability efforts) that require coordination across 2-3 engineering teams
• Pragmatic Trade-Offs: Cut through organizational and technical complexity, making clear, pragmatic technical trade-offs that balance long-term vision with timely delivery against business goals
• Hands-on Delivery: Deliver technically deep, cross-cutting software solutions, primarily focusing on back-end systems but maintaining the necessary full-stack perspective to drive end-to-end integration
• Systemic Reliability: Drive deep-dive root cause analyses (RCA) for critical, cross-domain production issues, transforming immediate crises into concrete, prioritized engineering work that prevents recurrence across the fleet
• Technical Multiplier: Mentor and coach Senior and Mid-Level engineers across the organization, significantly contributing to their technical growth and thereby increasing the overall efficiency and quality of the engineering department
• Influence & Accountability: Reliably improve and hold others accountable for a higher quality standard (e.g., reliability, performance, security) across the entire software team

Benefits

• Employee stock options
• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance & disability insurance
• 401(k)