Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Unify•San Francisco, CA

2d•$250,000 - $295,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Unify is redefining go-to-market with state-of-the-art AI. As an early Staff Software Engineer, this role is focused on scaling our core platform to support our hyper growth. Moreover, you’ll partner directly with the founders to take brand-new product ideas from zero to one, set the technical vision, and establish engineering standards that will scale with the company.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software-engineering experience, including 3+ years leading critical projects or teams.
Deep, hands-on expertise scaling and operating PostgreSQL—designing partitioned/sharded schemas, tuning indexes and queries, automating backups and observability, and running resilient multi-TB clusters with replication and failover.
Proven track record of shipping high-impact, production-grade systems at scale.
Passion for customers: prototype quickly, iterate on feedback, and sweat the edge-cases that matter.
Collaborative, low-ego attitude with a history of mentoring engineers and leveling up the people around you.
Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft.

Responsibilities

Scale Unify to support hyper growth and provide a stable platform for large scale customers.
Drive the technical roadmap by collaborating with Product, Design, and GTM stakeholders to translate ambiguous business goals into a clear, phased engineering plan.
Establish coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategy, reliability targets, and observability practices.
Rapidly prototype with third-party APIs, databases, model-serving platforms, and infra vendors.
Provide technical leadership for engineers across domains—pairing, reviewing, and unblocking as you go.