Staff Engineer, Software

Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend services and high-throughput data pipelines processing diverse content into structured, searchable intelligence.

Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete technical strategies and drive alignment and execution across multiple engineering teams.

Lead cross-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers, handle production system monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous reliability improvements.

Strong proficiency in Python; experience shipping production code in at least two programming languages.

Demonstrated ownership of production systems at scale with consequential architectural decisions.

Experience leading technical initiatives across teams without formal authority.

Deep DevOps and operational expertise including Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, and observability.

Engineer with strong system design instincts focusing on maintainability, scalability, and operational cost.

Experienced in cross-team influence and mentorship, raising engineering standards through documentation, reviews, and RFC leadership.

Comfortable integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems and using AI-assisted development tools critically as part of workflow.