Staff Software Engineer, Architecture

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

4h•$190,300 - $322,100•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering across the organization. This role will operate across cloud infrastructure, backend services and APIs, and data platforms, with a focus on architecture, engineering standards, and implementation. The successful candidate will serve as a senior individual contributor who combines architectural judgment with technical execution.

Requirements

Deep experience building complex software systems across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, backend services and APIs, data processing systems, and platform engineering.
Proficient in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or related.
Strong experience designing and operating APIs and backend services with clear contracts, versioning, backward compatibility, documentation, authentication and authorization, and observability.
Strong experience with cloud-native development and platform engineering in AWS, including infrastructure automation, environment design, deployment patterns, and security controls.
Experience with GitLab CI, automated build and test pipelines, artifact publication, release automation, and production deployment practices for services and platforms.
Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code and reusable platform patterns that improve consistency, delivery speed, and developer self-service.
Experience with data ingestion, event-driven systems, and stream or batch processing architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, or similar.
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar, service-side data modeling, and transactional system design.
Strong understanding of software quality practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, along with traceability and artifact publication.
Strong understanding of reliability, incident response, and operational support for business-critical systems.
Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams through strong design judgment, collaboration, and clear communication.
Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering standards.
Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
Minimum of 10 years relevant experience in software engineering, data platforms, and related functions.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with medical devices or other regulated industries.
Experience with defining and implementing data privacy requirements.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, backend services and APIs, and data platforms, ensuring that engineering practices are consistent, scalable, and broadly adoptable across the organization.
Contribute hands-on design and implementation to high-priority projects, with the ability to dive deep across multiple software domains.
Design and develop engineering patterns for APIs, service boundaries, data contracts, deployment models, observability, and operational reliability.
Contribute to design of data services such as file and event ingestion and processing, as well as data platforms with governed data access for analytics teams.
Lead architecture and design reviews for cross-team initiatives, helping the team make technical tradeoffs and align with platform standards.
Help establish and reinforce standards for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, versioning, documentation, and health and operability requirements across service and platforms.
Work closely with infrastructure, product, quality, and security to ensure solutions meet business, operational, and regulatory requirements.
Mentor engineers across teams, raising the bar for design and implementation quality.