Staff Software Engineer
$230,000–$275,000 year
On-site · Palo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Staff Software Engineer focused on growth engineering who has built and operated production-grade marketing automation systems at scale. Own end-to-end efforts on performance marketing initiatives, including campaign management pipelines, ads bidding optimization, and creative generation tooling. Collaborate with marketing, product, data science, and analytics teams to deliver high-quality tooling, drive architecture for growth systems, define performance metrics, and push data-driven decisions across the growth stack. Identify and resolve reliability and performance gaps, drive code reviews and architecture decisions, and align with leadership and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, low-latency systems.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of industry experience building and shipping high-impact software systems
- Experience in growth engineering including building and owning performance marketing tools, campaign automation pipelines, or ads optimization systems
- Experience building and maintaining highly reliable distributed systems that operate at scale
- Experience partnering with Data Science to drive performance marketing efficiency
- Knowledge of campaign management and ads bidding optimization is a strong plus
- Experience with A/B testing frameworks and data-driven experimentation
- Deep familiarity with full-stack development workflows, product ownership, and cross-functional collaboration
- Demonstrated ability to optimize service availability, performance, and stability through operational excellence
- Code-quality, latency, and observability standards
- Ability to handle ambiguity in a startup environment
- Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Curious, quick learner, scrappy, and experimental mindset
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