Staff Software Engineer

### Who you are
- We are looking for a highly self-driven, resourceful, and technically deep engineer who can operate with complete independence across domains
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale, complex projects that span multiple engineering teams. At least 1 year of experience as a staff engineer in a large software organization
- System Design: Deep expertise in architecting, developing, and operating distributed, highly-reliable, and scalable systems
- Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct authority and successfully partner with product management, hardware engineering, and executive leadership
- Clarity of Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of synthesizing complex technical risks and strategies for non-technical leadership
- Proactive Simplicity: A relentless drive to reduce complexity, improve operational simplicity, and proactively identify organizational-level technical risks and address them before they become crises
- Tech Stack Expertise: Fluency in our core stack is preferred (React, Typescript, Node.js, Python, C++, Kubernetes)

### 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)