Staff Software Engineer - Backend - 7+ years
Lead backend architecture and delivery for scalable, cloud-native distributed systems, data pipelines, and AI-enabled product features while improving reliability, performance, and engineering standards.
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Lead backend architecture and delivery for scalable, cloud-native distributed systems, data pipelines, and AI-enabled product features while improving reliability, performance, and engineering standards.
Design, build, and operate Loki backend systems, owning reliability and performance while delivering customer-facing features, contributing to open-source projects, and supporting teammates across a distributed systems team.
Design, build, and operate critical backend systems for large-scale telemetry, driving features and projects from idea through production while improving reliability, performance, and availability.
Own end-to-end development of motion-planning features for autonomous trucks, from design through integration and validation, improving on-road performance with safe, smooth trajectories and high-performance software.
Own the design, implementation, and deployment of trajectory generation, optimization, and control features that enable safe, comfortable autonomous truck driving, collaborating across autonomy and systems teams.
Own and evolve developer infrastructureโincluding CI, build systems, and deployment orchestrationโwhile setting technical direction, improving engineering workflows, and leading reliable, cross-team platform initiatives.
Own launch vehicle interfaces and spacecraft integration from requirements and compatibility analyses through launch-site operations, serving as the technical authority during campaigns and providing launch readiness recommendations.
Leads engineering for Toastโs Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team, building and scaling resilient platform features while guiding complex projects, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers.
Implement and ship Storage Encryption Everywhere in Firefoxโs Gecko engine, handling storage migrations, testing, specification questions, code review, and fixes for correctness, performance, and regressions.
Lead ServiceNow development for Vulnerability Management and USEM, translating business and security requirements into workflows, integrations, dashboards, and automation while supporting delivery and collaborating with technical.
Provides hands-on technical leadership across integrations, workflow orchestration, and data management, shaping scalable architecture, improving reliability, and guiding teams through complex platform initiatives.
Build and operate reliable infrastructure data productsโincluding pipelines, models, and servicesโto support usage and cost insights, planning, attribution, and budgets while shaping technical direction across teams.
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to help define and drive the next generation of GitLabโs Fulfillment platform.
Leads full-stack development for e-commerce, growth marketing, and consumer applications, shaping architecture and engineering quality while mentoring engineers and applying AI to improve software delivery.
Set the architectural direction for Dominoโs identity and authorization platform, evolving it into a secure, scalable, relationship-based system that supports enterprise customers and provides reusable foundations for engineering teams.
Set the technical direction for Dominoโs identity and authorization platform, evolving it into a secure, scalable, relationship-based system that supports enterprise customers and gives engineering teams reusable foundations.
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems for a bi-directional CRM data integration platform, shaping architecture and technical decisions while improving reliability, performance, and code quality.
Lead the modernization of legacy systems to microservices, guiding architectural decisions and managing engineering teams to enhance delivery and team performance.
As a Staff Engineer, you will set the technical direction for the Marketplace, leading the migration from a PHP monolith to a modern monorepo architecture while enhancing integration and usability.
As a Staff Engineer, you will set the technical direction for the Marketplace, overseeing its architectural shift and ensuring seamless integration of capabilities across the platform.
Build and evolve Claudeโs memory and search products end to end, combining agentic systems, retrieval infrastructure, and user-facing experiences while testing ideas against real usage and user needs.
Lead backend and data pipeline engineering for Proofpointโs email security products, shaping technical direction, improving data reliability, and supporting production systems.
Lead cross-product technical direction for Imunify360, solving high-impact Linux security and distributed-systems challenges while remaining hands-on in production development and aligning engineering across squads.
Lead hands-on engineering at an established SaaS company: ship production software, modernize development practices, coach engineers, set the roadmap with the GM, and bring AI into products and workflows.
Those that list pay offer a median of $232,000 a year. The middle half pay between $204,000 and $261,000.
| Level | Range | Middle half ยท median |
|---|---|---|
| All levels | $204Kโ$261K ยท $232K |
36% of these listings post pay. From 80 listings with pay in USD, at most three per company.
6% of these listings are open worldwide and 1% to a whole region, like Europe or Latin America. The other 93% hire in specific countries:
From 447 listings that state where they hire.
What hiring companies here ask for far more often than across all remote jobs, so it is worth putting front and center on your resume.
Share of the 188 companies hiring here that ask for each skill, and how many times as often as across all remote jobs. Soft skills like communication are left out.
Half stop taking applications within 41 days of being posted, and 1 in 4 within 19 days. Applying in the first week counts.
19 days
1 in 4 closed by then
41 days
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3 in 4 closed by then
From 193 listings that closed in the last 120 days, at most three per company.