Staff Software Engineer
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SurWeb Infrastructure
Portugal. Brazil. Poland. Argentina. India. Pakistan, Full Eastern Standard Time hoursContractStaff
Salary9,000 - 12,000 USD per month
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- 10 years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonSQLGCPJavascriptTypeScriptAzureCI/CD
Requirements
- 10 years of software engineering experience with a strong background in building and scaling high-traffic, multi-tenant web platforms.
- Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating distributed, high-availability systems at meaningful scale.
- Cloud platform experience: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with CDN infrastructure and web performance optimization techniques and tools.
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Pulumi or equivalent).
- Strong SQL and data querying skills; ability to work with data warehouses.
- Experience with message queues and CI/CD pipelines.
- Data storage experience with PostgreSQL, Redshift, or equivalent.
- Active AI tool usage in engineering workflow (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot).
- Strong English communication skills for technical discussions and async written collaboration.
- Available to work full Eastern Standard Time hours.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale the core platform infrastructure handling high-volume web traffic at the CDN and edge computing layer.
- Take an active technical leadership role in architecture design, technical planning, and authoring design documents with a long-term view.
- Plan and execute gradual, methodical rollouts: define target audiences, KPIs, and success metrics before shipping significant changes.
- Debug complex front-end behavior caused by backend platform changes across all browsers, devices, and geographies.
- Collaborate with the data engineering team to ensure testability at scale and build the right measurement and observability framework.
- Solve high-complexity technical problems with significant scope and ambiguity.
- Mentor engineers and serve as a point of technical escalation for complex platform challenges.
- Stay current with emerging web performance technologies, edge computing patterns, and browser optimization techniques.
- Embrace and integrate AI coding tools into your engineering workflow to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
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