Senior Staff Software Engineer L6

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer L6 to provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and hands-on engineering impact across mission-critical applications.

This role serves as a recognized technical authority, driving platform strategy, identity and security patterns, cloud modernization, and large-scale service design across business units and product lines.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in Java, relational databases, distributed systems, and cloud services with strong experience in OAuth2/OpenID Connect, federated identity, and SSO.

This person will influence engineering standards, strategy, and roadmap direction while serving as a bridge between engineering and product.

Lead architecture and design reviews, providing guidance on scalability, performance, security, and reliability across enterprise platforms.

Establish and enforce engineering standards, design principles, testing strategies, and architectural governance.

Translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and platform modernization strategies.

Drive the adoption of cloud-native, event-driven, and identity-first architectural patterns.

Contribute directly to codebases, model engineering excellence and unblock high-risk initiatives.

Review and evolve existing architectures to scale to millions of users and support robust data retrieval performance.

Ensure interoperability across multiple APIs, services, and platforms

Drive best practices in operational readiness, including performance testing, resiliency engineering, failure injection, and observability.

Monitor performance and platform SLAs using tools such as Datadog and define performance improvement plans grounded in data.

Lead major incident response efforts and root cause analyses (RCA), driving systemic improvements and long-term risk reduction.

Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure technology strategies align with business outcomes.

Influence roadmap prioritization and investment decisions with strong technical and business reasoning.

Serve as a visible and trusted technical leader across the organization.

Mentor and uplift senior engineers, Staff/Principal engineers, and technical leaders to expand organizational technical capacity.

Promote a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Model high standards in communication, architectural thinking, engineering rigor, and strategic influence.

10+ years of software engineering experience with increasing technical and leadership scope.

Extensive hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservice architectures, and distributed systems.

Deep expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), data modeling, and performance optimization.

Proven experience scaling high-traffic, mission-critical systems in cloud environments.

Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence leaders across teams and functions.

Strong understanding of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, secure API design, and federated identity.

implementing federation and SSO using Azure AD B2C or other enterprise identity providers.

Direct experience influencing roadmaps, modernization initiatives, or multi-year platform strategies.

Demonstrated leadership in cloud modernization, developer productivity, and architectural transformation programs.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship (e.g.

H-1B, TN, or E-3).

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States as a condition of employment. (This is only applicable for US-based positions)

If you don’t meet every qualification listed but are excited about our mission and the work described, we encourage you to apply.

Inovalon is most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and you may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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We endeavor to create a culture of inclusion in which our associates feel empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work and pursue their professional goals in an equitable setting.

We understand that by fostering this type of culture, and welcoming different perspectives, we generate innovation and growth.

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