Staff Software Engineer, Orders Platform
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JobgetherE-commerce Infrastructure
Based in United StatesFull-TimeStaff
Salary$265,000–$279,500 USD in CA, NY, CT, and NJ; $254,000–$268,000 USD in WA; $243,000–$256,500 USD in OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, and HI; $221,000–$233,000 USD in all other states.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonJavaKafkaGoNosqlDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale backend or platform systems in production.
- Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives from architecture and implementation through rollout and ongoing operations.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, high-volume APIs, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and idempotent workflows.
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
- Production experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience operating mission-critical services, including on-call ownership, service-level objectives or error budgets, performance optimization, incident management, and post-incident reviews.
- Demonstrated professional experience using AI-assisted development tools.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical direction.
- Deep familiarity with asynchronous workflows and event-driven architectures such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
- Experience integrating diverse internal services and external partners including ownership of API contracts and data models.
- Experience building or evolving multi-tenant and extensible platforms.
- Strong observability and reliability engineering knowledge including tracing, metrics, alerting, circuit breaking, and chaos testing.
- Understanding of secure-by-default service design, tokenization, secrets management, PCI requirements, and PII protection.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, multi-team engineering initiatives that improve the reliability, scalability, correctness, and operational performance of a large-scale Orders platform.
- Define and drive technical strategy for the complete order lifecycle, including order state models, service contracts, guarantees, and data integrity requirements.
- Architect and evolve event-driven, idempotent workflows supporting order creation, updates, cancellations, substitutions, payments, refunds, and other critical commerce operations.
- Establish clear system invariants, observability practices, and auditable histories across distributed services.
- Partner with engineering teams across Payments, Fulfillment, Catalog, Fraud and Identity, Data, Infrastructure, and other domains to develop reusable platform capabilities.
- Modernize platform architecture through improved consistency models, multi-tenant abstractions, failure isolation, secure integrations, and enhanced operability.
- Design secure, policy-driven platform capabilities that enable automated and agentic commerce workflows.
- Develop APIs and tools that allow AI systems and agents to interact with order workflows safely, reliably, and measurably.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, technical spikes, launches, and cross-team engineering efforts.
- Contribute hands-on to critical code paths while providing technical guidance and coaching to other engineers.
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