Staff Software Engineer I
$235,700–$277,000 year
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemoteFull Time$235,700–$277,000 yearSenior LevelLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLarge
Job Summary
Design and build backend services in Go, Java, and Python that run AI and model inference on real-time data. Own features end to end by drafting designs, aligning stakeholders across teams, and driving technical decisions on model lifecycle, inference routing, and agent execution. Ensure production reliability through rigorous code review, test coverage, documentation, and rollout safety for live inference systems. Participate in on-call rotation and help maintain healthy team processes.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of significant experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or cloud-native backend infrastructure in production
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed-systems patterns (control loops, API servers, high-scale control planes), plus the fundamentals — containerization, networking, resource isolation
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, or Python, and the willingness to work across all three
- A track record of leading cross-team technical work: turning ambiguous requirements into designs others can rally behind
- Excellent written and verbal communication — you can write a design doc that aligns people who don't report to you
Desired Qualifications
- Exposure to model serving, LLM/agent infrastructure, or streaming data systems
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