The Staff Software Engineer is a technical leader who drives reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability across our systems. This role goes beyond feature delivery: you will shape architecture, mentor engineers, reduce operational toil, and help the organization see problems in metrics before customers experience them.

You are expected to operate with high autonomy, strong judgment, and a bias toward durable solutions over quick fixes.

This role is based on-site at our Nashville, TN office. Please note that we do not currently have the capability to provide visa sponsorships of any kind.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

Lead design and implementation of complex systems across frontend, backend, and infrastructure boundaries.
Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and developer velocity.
Set standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.

Engineering Execution

Build and maintain web applications using React and TypeScript.
Design and implement APIs and data models using Golang, Python, GraphQL, and Postgres.
Drive CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Identify and eliminate sources of toil through automation and system improvements.

Operational Excellence

Proactively identify reliability risks using metrics, logs, and traces.
Lead incident response and postmortems with a focus on systemic improvement.
Champion observability using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.

Mentorship & Collaboration

Mentor mid-level and junior engineers in technical skills and engineering judgment.
Provide thoughtful, constructive code reviews.
Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and long-term needs clearly to leadership.

Requirements

12+ years of professional software engineering experience
Deep experience with modern web applications (React strongly preferred)
Strong background in at least one typed language beyond TypeScript
Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, and DNS
Strong SQL skills (schema design, performance, complex queries)
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end
A strong aversion to manual, repetitive toil (per Google SRE principles)

Preferred Extras

Golang in production systems
Kubernetes and container orchestration
Terraform and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer
Open-source contributions
Code generation frameworks
GraphQL schema design
Linux internals and CLI tooling
Experience with LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, and vector databases

Salary Range – $170k-220k depending on capability level and industry experience

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