Staff Software Engineer

EquipmentShare•Columbia, MO

2h•Remote

About The Position

EquipmentShare is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Cloud Ops team. This fully remote role provides technical leadership in designing, developing, and operating secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure and shared platform services. The Staff Software Engineer leads complex initiatives across engineering teams, improving automation, observability, resilience, and deployment processes while balancing performance, cost, and business needs. The role combines hands-on engineering with architectural direction, establishes engineering standards, mentors colleagues, and drives improvements that help teams build, deploy, and operate services effectively. The position is based at EquipmentShare’s Corporate Headquarters in Columbia, Missouri, but is fully remote. Employment is contingent on passing a background check; some roles also require a drug test depending on job responsibilities.

Requirements

10+ years of experience.
Significant, demonstrable experience with JavaScript and/or a structured programming language such as Python, Java, or C#.
A notable history of solving significant, complex technical problems.
Demonstrated ability to solve problems and deliver solutions that impact the engineering organization.
Knowledge of agile development practices and principles.
Significant experience designing and implementing domain-level architectures.
Experience mentoring and developing other engineers.
Deep technical expertise in a business-critical area.
Experience researching, evaluating, and testing technical options.
Understanding of trade-offs involving reliability, scalability, operational costs, organizational adoption, and recruiting.
Hands-on working knowledge of one or more of the following: React/React Native, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, serverless, streaming data, microservices, or data lakes.
Experience owning cross-team shared infrastructure.
A genuine desire to learn and help others.
A history of learning.
Ability to work with leadership and other architects to choose technologies and promote culture and processes.
Education may come from a bootcamp, college, or self-directed learning.

Responsibilities

Fully own technical initiatives.
Champion and lead process and team success.
Reduce complexity in code and processes.
Influence and standardize engineering practices.
Take operational responsibility.
Participate in candidate interviews and technical evaluations.
Mentor new hires and other engineers.
Lead cross-team initiatives involving cloud infrastructure and shared platform services.
Improve automation, observability, resilience, and deployment processes.
Provide architectural direction and establish engineering standards.
Work with leadership and other architects to select technologies and promote engineering culture and processes.