Staff Software Engineer

Lead architecture and design reviews for complex cross-team systems and platform capabilities

Drive technical decisions balancing scalability, reliability, extensibility, operational excellence, and cost efficiency

Establish engineering standards and guidelines across teams within the organization

Build systems with strong observability practices using cloud-native monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions

Identify technical risks early and proactively drive mitigation strategies before they impact production systems

Serve as a reliable technical consultant and subject matter expert for various teams and projects

Mentor engineers across levels on architecture, system design, engineering guidelines, and career development

Lead agile ceremonies and drive continuous improvement initiatives across teams

Foster a strong culture of ownership, accountability, quality, and engineering excellence

Contribute to the broader engineering community through internal tech talks, working groups, and knowledge sharing

Promote the use of AI-assisted engineering workflows throughout development, testing, documentation, and architecture methods

Build reusable AI/ML-enabled platforms and engineering patterns that accelerate team productivity

Promote experimentation with emerging technologies and scalable engineering solutions

Help establish secure and effective guidelines for AI-assisted software development across teams

10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade, internet-scale systems

Strong proficiency in modern backend technologies including GoLang, Python, and Node.js

Deep hands-on AWS experience across services such as EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS, RDS/Aurora, and IAM

Strong experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora and MongoDB including schema design, indexing, and performance optimization at scale

Verified skill in developing and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems

Experience deploying observability and monitoring solutions using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog

Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code solutions like Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation

Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML tooling or LLM-powered capabilities into production engineering workflows

Strong Agile/Scrum expertise with experience driving engineering process improvements across teams

Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, greenfield environments while driving technical direction and execution

Demonstrated technical leadership influencing projects, teams, and engineering outcomes beyond individual ownership

Frontend or full-stack experience with React

Experience with performance and load testing software such as k6, Locust, or JMeter

Experience contributing to engineering-wide standards or platform initiatives

Public technical contributions through blogs, conference talks, or community participation

Strong ownership approach with the ability to influence technical direction across teams

Excellent problem-solving and systems-thinking capabilities

Strong communication and collaborator management skills across technical and business teams

Passion for guiding engineers and expanding engineering excellence throughout the organization

Curiosity and enthusiasm for innovation, experimentation, and emerging technologies

We've got your back... We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups ( Culture ). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth.

GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us .

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page .

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer . GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com.