Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer

Vantor • Westminster, CO

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About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer to serve as the technical authority for a product or major product evolution. This role involves leading architecture, systems engineering, integration strategy, and technical execution across multiple engineering teams to ensure the delivery of scalable, reliable, and operationally successful software systems. The position bridges Product and Engineering by validating customer needs, translating them into system architecture, and guiding technical decisions throughout the product lifecycle. Success requires balancing customer outcomes, technical excellence, delivery commitments, and long-term maintainability while leading complex, cross-functional initiatives. The role also involves applying AI to accelerate architecture and systems analysis, identifying integration and operational risks earlier, improving requirements validation and technical decision-making, and scaling systems engineering practices to support AI-enabled development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience designing and delivering complex software-intensive systems.
• Experience serving as a technical lead across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and technical trade studies.
• Experience managing system integration and cross-team technical dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical issues spanning multiple organizations.
• Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, customers, and senior leadership.
• U.S. Person status (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee).

Nice To Haves

• Cloud-native platforms and Kubernetes.
• Event-driven and distributed architectures.
• AI-assisted software development workflows.
• Systems-of-systems engineering.
• High-availability or mission-critical software.
• Platform engineering.
• Operational readiness and production deployment.
• Model-based or digital systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for a product or major product evolution.
• Define system architecture and technical direction spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with Product Management to validate customer needs and ensure planned capabilities solve the right customer problem.
• Lead architecture reviews, trade studies, and major technical decisions affecting product evolution.
• Drive system decomposition, interface definition, integration planning, and release sequencing.
• Balance technical, operational, lifecycle, and delivery tradeoffs across teams and releases.
• Identify and manage architectural, integration, schedule, and operational risks across the product lifecycle.
• Resolve cross-team technical conflicts and remove engineering friction.
• Establish engineering practices that improve consistency, quality, and delivery across teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leadership throughout the organization.
• Guide products from concept through integration, validation, operational readiness, and customer deployment.
• Apply AI to accelerate architecture and systems analysis.
• Identify integration and operational risks earlier.
• Improve requirements validation and technical decision-making.
• Scale systems engineering practices to support AI-enabled development.

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Adoption reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved

What This Job Offers

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