Staff Software Engineer - Files Platform

Addepar

3d•$158,000 - $248,000

About The Position

Addepar is seeking a staff software engineer to join its Files Platform team. This team is responsible for Addepar's enterprise file management platform, building distributed systems for secure file storage, access control, and third-party integrations for wealth management firms. The role involves tackling challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise-scale access control, designing solutions that scale from small advisory firms to the largest wealth managers. The ideal candidate is excited by hard distributed systems problems, such as designing idempotent event-driven pipelines, building infrastructure for bursty workloads with strict latency SLAs, reconciling state across service boundaries, working with event-driven architectures at scale, or solving complex authorization and data access problems.

Requirements

7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
B.S., or M.S. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
Experience with server-side languages like Java, Python, or C++
Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server)
Ability to complete complex projects involving partners across multiple teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship (for example, employment-based visas such as H-1B, F-1/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with building scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS
Working with File System vendors

Responsibilities

Architect, implement, and maintain backend services that manage file storage, permissions synchronization, and third-party integrations at enterprise scale — writing well-designed, testable code.
Design and build event-driven systems for real-time permission propagation across Addepar's financial graph and external storage providers, meeting compliance revocation SLAs.
Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, security, and compliance partners on projects involving sensitive data access controls.
Contribute to migration efforts (e.g., FileVault to Box, webhook consolidation, folder structure evolution) ensuring zero-downtime rollouts for production firms.
Mentor other engineers on the team and promote engineering best practices and principles.
Explore and build AI-powered capabilities for intelligent file processing, automated metadata extraction, and content-aware workflows.
Evaluate emerging third-party file platform capabilities to expand Addepar's file management offerings.