Staff Engineer - .Net / C#
About The Position
The Staff Engineer – .NET / C# is responsible for designing and owning the backend architecture that powers a high-scale, consumer-facing commerce platform supporting billions in annual transaction volume. This role operates at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and high-throughput transactional processing. This engineer leads the design and evolution of microservices-based systems running on AWS (ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS, etc.), ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across mission-critical services including payments, ordering, and fulfillment. The role requires deep expertise in building secure, PCI-compliant systems with strong emphasis on data integrity, latency, and fault tolerance. The Staff Engineer defines backend engineering standards, drives architectural decisions, and partners cross-functionally to align technical strategy with business growth. This role carries full ownership of system reliability, observability, and production health, including incident response and long-term system resilience.
Requirements
- Designing and owning the backend architecture that powers a high-scale, consumer-facing commerce platform supporting billions in annual transaction volume
- Operating at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and high-throughput transactional processing
- Leading the design and evolution of microservices-based systems running on AWS (ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS, etc.)
- Ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across mission-critical services including payments, ordering, and fulfillment
- Deep expertise in building secure, PCI-compliant systems with strong emphasis on data integrity, latency, and fault tolerance
- Defining backend engineering standards, driving architectural decisions, and partnering cross-functionally to align technical strategy with business growth
- Carrying full ownership of system reliability, observability, and production health, including incident response and long-term system resilience
Responsibilities
- Design and own distributed backend systems using .NET / C# in a cloud-native AWS environment
- Build and scale microservices handling high-throughput, transactional workloads
- Lead architectural decisions across services impacting performance, reliability, and security
- Ensure systems meet strict requirements for latency, availability, and data integrity
- Design for PCI-DSS compliance, secure data handling, and fraud prevention considerations
- Drive improvements in system observability, monitoring, and incident response
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions
- Establish backend engineering standards, patterns, and best practices
- Identify and resolve system bottlenecks, scaling challenges, and architectural risks
- Mentor engineers and elevate technical capability across the organization
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off for exempt employees
- One paid volunteer day of your choice
- Competitive bonus structure for eligible roles
- Team member stock purchase plan
- Health savings or flexible spending account options
- 401k – (dollar for dollar on the first 3% and then 50 cents on the dollar for the next 2% for team member contributions up to 5% of eligible compensation)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Basic life and AD&D insurance provided
- Pet insurance
- Education Assistance
- Wellness reimbursement program
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Lunch provided every Tuesday and Thursday in office
- Discount on Wingstop gift cards
- Onsite game room
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
