- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: United States
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
About This Opportunity
Our talent team is representing a confidential technology consulting organization seeking a Staff Software Engineer for a fully remote role based in the United States. This is a direct-hire, full-time W2 position offering significant opportunities for technical leadership and career advancement.
We are looking for an accomplished engineer with 8+ years of experience who can lead complex, cross-team initiatives and mentor senior engineers while driving architecture decisions at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead and architect complex engineering initiatives that span multiple teams and systems
- Drive technical strategy and influence engineering culture and standards across the organization
- Provide technical mentorship and leadership to senior engineers
- Design and implement large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, or data systems
- Champion operational excellence, reliability, and observability practices
- Participate in multi-year platform modernization efforts
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Maintain and operate large-scale production systems with a focus on cost-aware engineering
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-team engineering initiatives
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, or large-scale data systems
- Strong programming skills in at least one major backend language
- Excellent system design and architecture capabilities
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to senior engineers
- Strong understanding of operational excellence, reliability, and observability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience influencing engineering culture and setting technical standards
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience driving multi-year platform modernization initiatives
- Public technical contributions such as conference talks, papers, or open-source projects
- Hands-on experience operating large-scale production systems
- Background building engineering organizations and platforms
- Familiarity with FinOps and cost-aware engineering practices
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. Our client is unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
How We Work With You
When you apply through Get A Job.ai, one of our experienced recruiters will review your background and schedule an initial screening call. If there's a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication and interview coordination will flow through our team to ensure the best experience for you.
Pay
Pay via Get A Job.ai: $100,000–$180,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Attention to Detail
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Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. — via O*NET
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Listing facts
- Role Staff Software Engineer
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location United States
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 20, 2026
- Apply by October 21, 2026
- Country United States
- Overview Full job description on this page (431 words)
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- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
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