Staff Engineer (Backend)

The role of Staff Engineer at Correlation One is a leadership position responsible for driving the technical vision and standards of excellence for their team. They develop a long-term technical blueprint and promote a culture of craftsmanship within the team. Staff Engineers are hands-on, mentoring and coaching team members while also being deeply involved in the details of the work. They are responsible for improving and upholding engineering and operational standards, as well as fostering an inclusive culture. The ideal candidate should have extensive software development experience, proficiency in modern languages and cloud-based architectures, and a deep understanding of data management.

• Own and develop the long-term technical vision & blueprint for the team
• Design technical strategy to move from existing monolithic applications to well-architected cloud-based microservices
• Hands-on development from microservices and sub-systems to the entire technical stack
• Deal with ambiguity and figure things out with minimal guidance
• Mentor engineers including senior and junior engineers on their team
• Improve and uphold standards for engineering and operational excellence

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• 8+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Python, Java
• 6+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems
• Deep experience building large scale distributed systems utilizing microservices, domain based and/or layered cake architectures
• Knowledge of building services using one or more cloud infrastructures such as GCP/AWS
• Knowledge of relational/non-relational databases and unstructured storage
• Deep experience in cloud design patterns for scalability, resiliency, availability, latency, responsiveness
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proficient in coding standards, code reviews, devops and delivering high quality software
• Deep understanding of modern data architectures and data management
• Formal education (PhD, Masters or Bachelors) in a technical discipline

• Remote work opportunity
• Compatible with EST time zone
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Work environment free of discrimination and harassment
• Employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications
• Full inclusion of all qualified individuals
• Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities
• Compensation range of $70,000-$100,000 USD (base salary only)