Role Overview
We are looking for a highly hands-on Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years to provide technical leadership to join our engineering team. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports.
The ideal candidate will lead cross-team and cross-product initiatives, contribute directly to production software, establish engineering guardrails, build reusable frameworks and AI capabilities, and mentor senior engineers and technical leads. AI-assisted engineering is a baseline expectation. Solid experience with AWS, TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, distributed systems, data architecture, security, and AI Engineering is required.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead cross-team and cross-product initiatives from design through production adoption
• Design, develop, test, deploy, debug, and operate critical production software
• Define architectural principles and guardrails while preserving team autonomy
• Review high-risk designs for tradeoffs, failure modes, security concerns, and integration risks
• Build shared frameworks, libraries, services,



and tooling that improve quality and delivery speed
• Create reusable AI workflows, evaluations, validation mechanisms, and safety guardrails
• Apply AI responsibly across design, coding, testing, documentation, debugging, and analysis
• Establish standards for design, testing, code review, CI/CD, and release readiness
• Improve reliability, scalability, performance, security, and observability
• Lead major cross-product incident response and drive preventive actions
• Design APIs, event-driven systems, distributed workflows, integrations, and data models
• Translate product direction into technical strategies and implementation plans
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads and contribute to technical hiring

Required Skills and Experience
• Demonstrated Staff Engineer-level impact across multiple teams, products, or domains
• Experience leading complex initiatives through production delivery and adopt

📌 Staff Engineer (India)
🏢 First American (India)
📍 India