Staff Engineer, Core Engineering Services

Herbalife•Torrance, CA

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Staff Engineer is a hands-on senior technical leader within Herbalife’s Digital Technology organization, operating at the first individual-contributor level whose impact spans multiple teams within a domain — positioned above Senior Engineer and below Principal Engineer on the technical track. Embedded directly with product engineering teams, the Staff Engineer sets technical direction, provides architectural guidance, drives adoption of modern platform standards and engineering practices, and mentors senior engineers across multiple teams within a domain or office. This is a pure individual contributor role — influence comes through technical depth, clarity, and leadership rather than positional authority. Staff Engineers stay hands-on, writing production code regularly (roughly half of their time) while devoting the balance to architecture, technical strategy, and cross-team alignment; they serve as the technical conscience and quality bar-setter for their area and partner with engineering leadership to translate enterprise technical vision into execution. You’ll be embedded within Herbalife’s distributed Digital Technology organization, working hands-on across teams spanning the US, Guadalajara, and Bangalore during a multi-year platform transformation. The environment is collaborative and code-first: you’ll pair with engineers daily, partner closely with product, security, and enterprise architecture, and work directly with the Sr. Director of Engineering and Distinguished Engineer to bring modern engineering practices to a team that is eager to level up. Comfort working across time zones and cultures is crucial.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on work in modern web application development, platform engineering, or cloud-native architecture, with at least 2 years operating at a senior level driving technical decisions across more than one team.
Hands-on experience adopting or extending modern platform and developer-experience tooling: CI/CD pipelines, shared libraries and service templates, API gateways, contract testing, and observability (e.g., OpenTelemetry).
Working knowledge of distributed systems patterns — event-driven architecture, message streaming, synchronous vs. asynchronous tradeoffs, and service-to-service authentication.
Track record of writing architecture and design documentation — decision records, runbooks — that engineers actively use and that is maintained as a living standard.
Experience using engineering health metrics (deployment frequency, change failure rate, incident volume) to guide technical decisions within a team or domain.
Demonstrable experience driving cross-team technical alignment, adopting modern engineering practices (trunk-based development, CI/CD, observability, automated testing), and mentoring senior engineers.
Deep expertise in at least one engineering domain (frontend, backend, platform, or data) with strong working knowledge across the full stack.
Fluency with modern software development practices and AI-assisted development, with the ability to model their effective use for the team.
Strong architecture and design skills, with experience authoring technical decision records and design documentation that others reference.
Excellent communication and mentorship skills — patient, empathetic, and committed to knowledge transfer; able to influence without positional authority.
Data-informed decision-making — able to define and use engineering metrics to guide architecture, prioritization, and continuous improvement, with a strong grasp of trunk-based development and feature flagging.

Nice To Haves

Experience working across distributed teams and time zones strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership and set technical direction across multiple teams within a domain or office, writing production-grade code roughly half of the time, reviewing others’ work, and modeling what great engineering looks like.
Drive adoption of platform standards, modern tooling, and engineering best practices — version control, testing, build/deploy, observability, and security — and implement the technical baseline through code review, pairing, and proactive intervention.
Lead resolution of the most complex, ambiguous technical problems in the area, serving as the point of escalation and driving root-cause analysis and systemic improvement for production incidents.
Mentor and level up engineers across the domain, including senior engineers, through pairing, design collaboration, and deliberate knowledge transfer — with impact measured by the growth of the engineers around them.
Lead the technical health and velocity of the domain, identifying recurring problems and building shared tooling, automation, runbooks, and training that lift the whole team.
Partner with the Sr. Director and Distinguished Engineer to translate enterprise-level technical strategy and roadmap into on-the-ground execution, while providing bottom-up input on platform priorities based on the team’s real needs.
Build cross-team alignment and communicate technical decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, producing the design docs, decision records, and documentation that keep teams aligned.
Raise the engineering baseline beyond your immediate team by creating training content, running working sessions, and bringing modern industry practices, tools, and patterns into the organization.
Additional duties as assigned.