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If you thrive on solving complex, cross-cutting technical challenges and influencing architecture at scale, this role was built for you. Join a data-driven product organization operating at massive scale and help raise the technical bar across systems, teams, and products.
Staff Software Engineer Benefits and Compensation:
• Competitive base compensation
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Hybrid flexibility in Atlanta or remote opportunity (ET/CT preferred)
• High-impact senior IC role with architectural ownership
• Direct collaboration with Product, Data, and Engineering leadership
• Access to modern AI-assisted development tools
• Opportunity to influence large-scale systems supporting hundreds of millions of records
• Growth-focused, high-ownership engineering culture
Staff Software Engineer Requirements & Qualifications:
Must Haves:
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent depth
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale production systems
• Strong backend experience building data-intensive applications
• Deep expertise in system design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and modern data stores
• Experience working across multiple services and repositories in cloud-native environments
• Comfort debugging live production issues using logs, metrics, and traces
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture decisions without formal authority
• Experience mentoring mid-level and senior engineers
Unique Day-to-Day Impact:
• Own complex technical problems end-to-end, from architecture design through production release
• Drive architectural decisions that directly impact system performance, cost, and maintainability
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks and data quality issues across services
• Improve observability, operational readiness, and system reliability in partnership with SRE
• Build automation and tooling to reduce developer and operational toil
• Review and unblock high-impact pull requests while raising engineering standards
• Partner cross-functionally to clarify trade-offs, risks, and long-term scalability decisions
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, migrations, and testing
Staff Software Engineer Preferred Background & Skills:
Nice to Have:
• Experience with OpenSearch, MongoDB, and AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, RDS, CloudWatch, and Glue
• Frontend experience with React, React Native, or Expo/EAS
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and cloud-native platforms
• Background in data pipelines, ETL/ELT, or analytics platforms
• Experience modernizing legacy systems incrementally
• Experience working closely with SRE or infrastructure teams
• Strong judgment around AI-generated code, including review, validation, and production readiness
JOB ID: 171714
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