Staff Software Engineer
United States. Mexico. Canada. Colombia. Brazil. Argentina, 6hr+ time zone spreadFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Required Skills
- DockerPythonTypeScriptFastAPIRustNetworkingCross-functional collaborationDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of personally building, shipping, and operating production systems at meaningful scale
- Strong Python proficiency — FastAPI, async patterns, Docker orchestration
- Vue 3 / TypeScript, Rust / Tauri, or cross-platform desktop app experience extremely beneficial
- Networking/P2P application experience beneficial
- Distributed systems and API design experience including design & evolution of interfaces consumed by multiple independent teams
- Practical RAG and information retrieval experience with vector databases, retrieval pipelines, embedding strategies, and aggregation
- Demonstration of technical leadership through the introduction of engineering quality practices to one or more teams
- Comfort with ambiguity and resource constraints
- Async-fluent with strong written communication and capacity to build high-trust working relationships across 6hr+ time zone spread
- Cross-functional collaboration & communication to facilitate and improve understanding/context sharing between engineers and non-engineering/non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Own the NSAI squad technical architecture end to end — align design, engineering, and deployment across stack to deliver reliable technical capabilities and user experience from current implementation through product roadmap evolution.
- Drive production readiness through deployment monitoring, error handling, graceful degradation, and operational runbooks.
- Be a force multiplier by establishing, demonstrating, and mentoring the team to establish norms around engineering best practices (including system design for modularity, security, reliability, & scalability), code quality, and delivery to production.
- Collaborate on core technology stack strategy through architectural review and identification of NSAI components that should become shared organizational primitives and defining standard interfaces that prevent tight coupling.
- Partner with product lead to develop and execute on realistic roadmaps that balance what is desired with what is feasible, scalable, and architecturally sounds.
- Own the delivery of engineering’s quarterly goals, ensuring consistent, high-impact delivery while effectively managing resources.
- Own team output, delivery, and success (productivity, timeliness, morale) through appropriately matching team members and work to properly balance interest, learning opportunities, capacity, and capability.
- Champion high-quality software delivery through the establishment of robust tools, processes, & methodologies, and by providing hands-on technical leadership via individual development contributions and code reviews.
- Create technical documentation and processes that support high velocity and knowledge transfer.
- Manage a team of 2-4 engineers as a people leader, performing 1:1s, providing technical and professional feedback, creating professional development plans, and performing performance reviews.
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