Staff Software Engineer

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As individual contributors, they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet scale streaming.

What it asks for · 6

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, either as a manager or technical leader
• You have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems, either in their unique depth of technical expertise needed and/or in their scope of impact across a company’s engineering org
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

What the job covers

• Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business
• Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production
• Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale

Degree language

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• technical8×
• engineering5×
• systems5×
• building4×
• scale4×
• bring3×
• delivery3×
• engineer3×
• experience3×
• staff3×
• area2×
• critical2×
• data2×
• design2×
• either2×
• improve2×

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