Staff Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio
RemoteUnited States or San Francisco, California, United States
United States or San Francisco, California, United StatesRemoteFull TimeSenior Level
Full TimeSenior Level
Job Summary
Conduct end-to-end ownership across product, infrastructure, and architecture for high-ownership, hands-on engineering roles within Dragonfly's portfolio companies. Build AI-native features, integrations, and systems from the ground up while working directly with founders and small teams to ship fast and iterate. Operate in ambiguity with full-stack capability, owning design, deployment, and observability for production systems at scale. Submit your information to receive confidential matching with portfolio companies aligned to your background and interests.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- track record of end-to-end ownership
- AI-forward mindset
- Full-stack capability
- comfort owning architecture
- comfort owning infrastructure
- comfort owning deployment
- Experience shipping production systems at scale
- real users
- real stakes
- Strong technical instincts
- push for simpler designs
- good observability
- strong engineering culture
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- moving fast in early-stage environments
- Location: San Francisco (onsite)
- some roles are NYC or USA (remote)
Desired Qualifications
- End-to-end ownership across product
- End-to-end ownership across infra
- End-to-end ownership across architecture
- Work directly with founders
- Work directly with small teams
- no layers
- no bureaucracy
- Ship fast
- iterate
- have a real say in technical direction
- Build AI-native features
- Build AI-native integrations
- Build AI-native systems
- Build from the ground up
- engineering leaders who want to return to being hands-on individual contributors
- been in management
- miss building
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