Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Role & responsibilities :

• Drive the technical strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap for complex products and platforms.

• Design and build scalable, highly available, secure, and high-performance software systems.

• Own end-to-end technical solutions from requirements and system design through development, deployment, and production operations.

• Lead architecture and design decisions across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and integrations.

• Solve complex technical problems involving scalability, reliability, performance, security, and system resilience.

• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and influence engineering standards and best practices.

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, DevOps, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical assessments.

• Establish best practices for software development, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and production reliability.

• Mentor Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and other engineers and help raise the overall technical capability of the organization.

• Identify and address technical debt, architectural gaps, performance bottlenecks, and engineering risks.

• Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools and drive their adoption where they provide measurable technical or business value.

• Contribute to engineering standards, technical documentation, reusable frameworks, and platform capabilities.

• Collaborate across teams to ensure consistency in architecture, engineering practices, and technology decisions.

• Participate in incident analysis and drive long-term solutions for critical production issues.

• Balance technical excellence, delivery timelines, business priorities, and maintainability when making engineering decisions.

Preferred candidate profile :

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Software Engineering, with significant experience owning complex technical systems and providing technical leadership.

• Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, distributed systems, and scalable application development.

• Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Java, C++, Python, C#, Go, or Node.js.

• Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, and Software Engineering principles.