Senior Staff Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • San Diego, CA

2d • $70,000 - $110,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and lead the design and execution of complex, cross-cutting engineering initiatives. The role contributes to architecture decisions, engineering standards, and technical roadmaps, combining deep technical expertise with organizational judgment and hands-on execution.

The engineer will work with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions. The role also involves raising engineering quality through code and design reviews and mentoring junior engineers. The successful candidate will bring strong engineering discipline, clear communication, and a record of delivering production-ready work.

This is a full-time, direct W-2 position based remotely in the United States. Bright Vision Technologies does not sponsor new H-1B visa petitions; U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of leading complex, cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Deep expertise in at least one of distributed systems, cloud platforms, or large-scale data systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one major backend language.
• Excellent system-design and architecture skills.
• Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership of senior engineers.
• Strong understanding of operational excellence, reliability, and observability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Track record of influencing engineering culture and standards.

Nice To Haves

• Experience driving multi-year platform modernization initiatives.
• Public technical contributions, such as talks, papers, or open-source software, in relevant areas.
• Hands-on experience operating large-scale production systems.
• Exposure to building engineering organizations as well as platforms.
• Familiarity with FinOps and cost-aware engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Lead the design and execution of complex, cross-cutting engineering initiatives.
• Help shape architecture and raise engineering standards.
• Contribute to the organization’s technical roadmaps and their execution.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and design reviews.
• Mentor more junior engineers.
• Deliver meaningful work that operates reliably in production.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior