Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction of our distributed messaging systems in Go — making the high-level architectural calls on mission-critical services where scale, cost, and reliability are all in tension
• Take on ambiguous, high-stakes problems that cross squad and function boundaries, and drive them to a decision when the right answer isn't obvious to anyone yet
• Build consensus on contested technical questions across teams, and communicate the tradeoffs clearly enough that senior leadership can act on them
• Raise the department's bar — set quality and design standards, mentor senior engineers, and turn what you know into frameworks and documentation other teams can use without you in the room
• Drive engineering process and tooling improvements that span multiple squads, not just your own
• Participate in an on-call rotation as required, supporting the reliability of the systems you build
• Interview and calibrate against our career ladder, giving honest, evidence-based assessments of candidates
• Use AI agents to make multi-file changes by scoping the work, writing the prompt, and verifying the output

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