Staff Software Engineer

Location: Remote, USA

Department: Development - Loading

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind now or in the future (ex. OPT, EAD, H1B, H4, etc.)

• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

• Lead architecture and technical direction for Ocients Loading and Transformation platforms, partnering with architects across the engineering org to ensure systems scale reliably to petabytes and beyond.
• Set technical standards and design patterns for batch and stream ingestion, making tradeoffs that affect multiple teams and the broader platform.
• Lead ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production, escalating only the highest-risk decisions.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; raise the technical bar through design and code review.
• Program in modern C++ and/or Java to build and monitor distributed software systems.
• Partner with Sales, Product, and End Customers on the most complex, highest-stakes engagements, translating customer needs into system design.
• Drive engineering innovation, identifying and championing improvements that span the loading platform or the wider Ocient stack.

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or large, complex systems.
• Deep, expert-level computer science fundamentals and systems design skills.
• Extensive experience architecting and delivering high-performance, high-availability distributed systems in modern C++ and/or Java, in production at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own, communicate, and de-risk ambiguous, large-scale technical problems with organization-wide impact.
• Deep working knowledge of Linux, networking, and databases, including performance and reliability tradeoffs at scale.

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with a track record of setting technical direction across an engineering organization.
• Expert-level coding capabilities in both C++ and Java.
• A demonstrated polyglot skill set, with a track record of moving fluidly across domains and problem spaces to unblock teams.
• Proven experience architecting, building, and evolving end-to-end customer-facing systems at massive scale, with lasting influence on engineering standards and practices.
• Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers into technical leaders.