Staff Software Engineer

The RoleRaydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams.What You'll DoGuide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work.Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization.Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective.Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities.Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions.What We're Looking For8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope and responsibility.Hands-on history running high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production.Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies should have worked at least once in a startup.Strong system design skills for data-intensive and distributed architectures.Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models.Working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails.Practical experience using AI coding assistants in daily development.Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to be in the office 3 days per week.Location And Work ModelSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHybrid, 3 days per week in officeFull-timeCompensation, As The Posting Describes ItEquityPerformance bonusProfessional development support