Sr. Staff SW Engineer (9+ years, Go, AWS, Distributed Transactions)

• Technical Leadership: Consistently leads their squad to successful technical outcomes, ensuring sound engineering decisions that balance technical debt, system design, reliability, observability, and business needs.
• High-Impact Contributions: Regularly recognized for delivering high-quality, impactful technical solutions within their team and across collectives.
• Coding Standards & Best Practices: Actively enables other engineers to elevate coding standards and deepen awareness of best practices, especially around non-functional requirements.
• Product Awareness & Planning: Demonstrates strong product understanding, contributes meaningfully to quarterly planning, and collaborates with PMs or team leads to shape squad vision.
• Mentorship & Feedback: Proactively supports the growth of other engineers through mentoring, sponsorship, and constructive feedback.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Frequently consulted by engineers from other squads, demonstrating the ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems under pressure.
• Technology Strategy: Keeps up with emerging technology trends and contributes insights to squad-level strategic discussions.

This is a hybrid position.

Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g.

Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD

7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and/or leading multi-team organizations delivering complex, production-grade systems.

Deep hands-on expertise in large-scale distributed systems design, including multi-region architectures, fault isolation, data consistency models, and performance optimization.

Proven track record operating high-availability, mission-critical services, with strong ownership of reliability, observability, incident management, and operational excellence (SLOs/SLAs).

Demonstrated innovation in technical systems and engineering processes, driving step-change improvements in scalability, developer productivity, quality, or cost efficiency.

Hands-on experience integrating AI into software development workflows and products, including automation, intelligent tooling, or AI-native system design.

Strategic thinker with strong execution rigor — able to translate long-term platform vision into clear roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and disciplined delivery.

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