Senior Member of Technical Staff

Blitzy•Cambridge, MA

4d•$280,000 - $375,000•Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Member of Technical Staff to serve as a key engineering leader driving Blitzy's technical strategy and execution. You'll partner directly with our CTO to scale our engineering organization, and ensure we're building an autonomous software development platform that performs at the highest levels of quality, reliability, and speed. This role sits at the intersection of technical leadership, team building, and hands-on execution—translating our product vision into a scalable, high-performing engineering organization. You'll partner with the CTO to define engineering strategy and execution across multiple areas, build and lead high-performing engineering teams, and make critical decisions that shape the platform's future. This is a role for a leader who can scale teams and systems, who can operate with both strategic vision and technical depth, and who thrives in the fast pace of a hypergrowth startup. This role is ideal for someone with a track record of leading engineering organizations at high-growth technology companies, who combines strong technical judgment with the leadership skills to build and retain top engineering talent.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership roles
Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams at high-growth technology companies
Deep technical expertise across modern software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
Experience managing engineering managers and building leadership benches
Strong track record of shipping complex software products on predictable timelines
Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executives and Boards
Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with strategic, business-level thinking
Experience operating in fast-paced, high-ambiguity startup environments

Nice To Haves

Experience at an AI/ML or developer tools company
Background in autonomous systems, agentic AI, or large-scale code generation platforms
Experience scaling engineering orgs through hypergrowth (Series A to Series C+)
Track record of building engineering culture that attracts and retains top talent
Hands-on technical credibility—able to dive into code and architecture when needed
Experience with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and reliability requirements
MBA or equivalent business acumen alongside deep technical expertise

Responsibilities

Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, with strong processes for hiring, onboarding, and career development
Drive the technical roadmap and architecture decisions that keep the platform reliable, secure, and performant at scale
Serve as the right hand of the CTO to establish engineering rigor—code quality standards, CI/CD practices, incident response, and on-call processes
Develop and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, creating a strong leadership bench
Represent engineering in company-wide strategic planning and support the CTO for Board-level updates
Set and drive the technical roadmap in partnership with the CTO
Own execution across multiple engineering teams, ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery
Execute key architecture and technology decisions that scale with the business as defined by the CTO
Balance short-term delivery pressure with long-term platform investment
Recruit, hire, and retain top engineering talent across all levels
Build and develop a strong bench of engineering managers and senior technical leaders
Establish clear career ladders, performance frameworks, and growth paths
Foster an engineering culture rooted in ownership, craftsmanship, and speed
Implement and continuously improve engineering processes: agile/sprint planning, code review, CI/CD, testing, and incident management
Own platform reliability, security, and performance at scale
Establish on-call rotations and incident response practices that minimize downtime
Drive metrics and reporting that give leadership visibility into engineering velocity and health
Stand up new engineering functions, teams, or processes where gaps exist
Solve the hardest, most ambiguous technical and organizational problems facing the company