Staff Engineer, Software

Overview

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical direction and end-to-end ownership of backend services and high-throughput data pipelines that process content into structured, searchable intelligence.

What you'll do

• Set technical direction, define architecture, and own the technical roadmap.
• Scope ambiguous problems, identify risks, and break initiatives into deliverable increments.
• Design and deliver scalable pipelines, robust services, and high-performance systems.
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities into production systems.
• Lead cross-team initiatives, RFCs, architectural reviews, and technical consensus.
• Operate production systems, monitor SLOs and SLIs, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through reviews and documentation.

What you'll need

• Strong Python skills.
• Production experience in at least two programming languages.
• Experience designing and owning production systems serving users at scale.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives without formal authority.
• Strong system design skills involving failure modes, data flow, scalability, and operational cost.
• DevOps experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising team standards.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale migrations or platform rewrites.
• Production experience with AI/ML, LLMs, BERT, NLP pipelines, or document understanding.
• Experience with content processing, enrichment, or search systems at scale.
• Familiarity with Java, GitOps, ArgoCD, or Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools daily.

Details

• Work mode: Remote.
• Location: India.