Staff Engineer I

The Staff Engineer role serves as a trusted technical authority across a broad business domain, replacing the legacy Principal Engineer position. This role focuses on managing technical complexity rather than people, leveraging influence to align teams, promote best practices, and mentor engineers to accelerate the entire department’s progress with safety and quality. The Staff Engineer plays a critical part in solving complex challenges, owning high-level designs, and driving technical leadership across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Technical Problem Solver: Step into the most challenging technical problems that span multiple teams, reducing uncertainty and stabilizing complex projects.
- Design Ownership: Lead the high-level design of multi-service capabilities, ensuring that security and scalability are integral from the outset.
- Technical Project Leadership: Act as the technical lead on major strategic initiatives, guiding architecture decisions and execution strategies across several engineering teams.
- Core Code Development: Develop foundational and complex core systems that serve as the building blocks for other teams’ work.
- Quality Gatekeeper: Serve as the primary approver for critical design reviews and major technical projects, raising the bar for engineering standards.
- Promotion Endorsement: Provide evidence-based endorsements for Senior Engineer promotions, playing a formal role in performance evaluations.
- Execution Excellence: Focus on delivering technical excellence within the current quarter, complementing longer-term strategic planning.
- AI-Native Engineering Leadership: Drive the adoption of agentic tooling, large language model (LLM) workflows, and AI automation to accelerate development processes within the team.

Required Qualifications

- Over 10 years of experience designing and delivering complex software systems with a proven track record of success.
- Deep expertise in at least one technical area combined with broad competence across the full technology stack (T-shaped skill set).
- Strong ability to influence without formal authority, shaping decisions and driving alignment across multiple teams through expertise and persuasion.
- Highly focused on craftsmanship with a proactive approach to addressing both cultural and technical debt.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

While specific benefits are not detailed, the role offers an opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-native engineering, engaging with cutting-edge tools and workflows that accelerate software development. The position is ideal for engineers who thrive in complex environments and are passionate about technical leadership without direct people management responsibilities.

This role is designed for a seasoned engineer who excels at navigating complexity, mentoring peers, and driving technical excellence across diverse teams. If you are motivated by solving hard problems and elevating engineering practices at scale, this position offers a unique platform to make a significant impact.