Senior Staff Software/DevOps Engineer

Impinj•Seattle, WA

4d•$158,700 - $238,100

About The Position

Impinj is seeking a Senior Staff Software/DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and reliability to join its Solutions Software organization. The role designs, builds, and operates the cloud platform that manages RFID readers at scale, working hands-on across application code and infrastructure with senior engineers to scale, harden, and monitor a platform serving very large reader fleets. The engineer will work across the technology stack, including frontend, backend, mobile, databases, event sourcing, MQTT, PKI/certificates, and IoT, collaborating with colleagues in disciplines such as design, firmware, and silicon. The role takes primary ownership of infrastructure and operations, drives technical strategy, leads cross-functional initiatives, establishes engineering practices, mentors engineers, and leads adoption of AI tools and practices. The position typically requires 12 or more years of professional software development experience and a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience. Experience with Azure, event sourcing, IoT device fleets, or embedded software is preferred, as is deep expertise in Rust.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Typically 12 or more years of professional software development experience.
Experience developing production application code as well as designing and operating cloud infrastructure.
Deep expertise in cloud platforms, containers and orchestration, infrastructure as code, networking, security, and observability.
Strong understanding of scaling, load management, consistency, and failure modes in distributed systems.
Proven track record of building and operating systems at scale, with detailed examples of problems solved.
Demonstrated history of delivering results on new, ambiguous, or difficult technical problems.
Demonstrated history of increasing technical scope and influence, including mentoring engineers and leading initiatives across teams.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a record of helping teammates succeed.
Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve the speed and quality of engineering work.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure, event sourcing, IoT device fleets, or embedded software.
Deep expertise in Rust.

Responsibilities

Design and build infrastructure that scales automatically to handle connection surges of up to one million RFID readers.
Design for resilience to cloud regional outages, including multi-region deployment, failover, and disaster recovery.
Write production code in Rust and TypeScript for backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
Profile and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues across the system.
Build and maintain infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, secrets and certificate management, deployment, and environment management.
Build monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting for production systems, and handle incident response.
Build and operate event-driven systems using event sourcing, message queues, and MQTT.
Drive technical strategy for infrastructure and present proposals to engineering, product, and executive leadership.
Take primary ownership of infrastructure and operations, partnering with senior engineers who build and ship alongside you.
Lead cross-functional technical initiatives with engineering, product, and other Impinj teams where the platform intersects with theirs.
Establish engineering best practices and patterns that increase team velocity and ensure long-term scalability.
Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
Lead the team’s adoption of AI tools and practices for building, testing, and operating software.