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Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$250k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Tamarind Bio
Tamarind Bio: AI-powered platform for computational biology and drug discovery.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering experience; staff/principal/technical lead experience; strong software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS) experience; mentorship and technical leadership; onsite in San Francisco.
AWS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Docker, MLOps, DevOps
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Staff Software Engineer, Audit (Full Stack)
San Francisco, California, United States
$210k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
Fieldguide
Fieldguide: AI-native platform for automating audit and advisory workflows.
5+ YOESenior staff software engineer with full-stack experience, AI tooling, and ability to lead complex, ambiguous projects; strong collaboration with product/design
TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL
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Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences
San Francisco or United States
$217k-$303k/yr RemoteFull Time
Reddit
RedditNYSE: RDDT: Social platform for community-driven discussion and content sharing.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering; distributed systems; technical leadership; strong communication; lead cross-functional initiatives.
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Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform
San Francisco or Seattle
OnsiteFull Time
Stripe
Stripe: Provides online payment processing and financial infrastructure for businesses.
10+ YOE10+ years of software development; technical lead; production ML platform experience; cross-functional collaboration; autonomous; AI tooling experience.
AWS, SageMaker, Databricks, OpenAI, Python, Java, SQL, ML platforms
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform
San Francisco or New York City
$250k-$295k/yr HybridFull Time
Unify
Unify: AI-powered platform for automating B2B sales outbound workflows.
8+ YOE8+ years software-engineering experience, 3+ years leading projects or teams, deep PostgreSQL expertise, production-grade systems experience, strong mentoring and technical leadership skills.
PostgreSQL
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Staff Software Engineer
Oakland or United States
$208k/yr RemoteFull Time
Earnest
EarnestNASDAQ: NAVI: Provides student loan refinancing and personal lending services.
3+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related plus 3 years software development; 3 years with distributed microservices, PostgreSQL, Node.js/TypeScript, client frameworks; 2 years with AWS and leading large-scale projects; strong communication.
Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, React/Redux, React Native, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, Docker, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, FullStory, AWS, Jira
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Staff Software Engineer
New York City or San Francisco or Seattle
$252k-$315k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Scale AI
Scale AI: Provides data and infrastructure for training artificial intelligence models.
7+ YOE7+ years engineering experience as tech lead/architect; experience with LLMs or vector databases preferred; proficient in Javascript/Typescript, SQL, Kubernetes, cloud providers; strong communication and critical thinking.
Javascript, Typescript, SQL, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, LLMs, vector databases
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Lead/Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Dynamo AI
Dynamo AI: A that provides infrastructure and evaluation frameworks to help enterprises deploy AI systems reliably, securely, and at scale.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience with 4+ years on large-scale distributed systems; deep Kubernetes and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) expertise; hands-on with Python, TypeScript, Go; proven technical leadership and customer-facing experience.
Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, TypeScript, Go
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Staff Software Engineer
United States or New York City or San Francisco
$200k-$240k/yr RemoteFull Time
Euclid Power
Euclid Power: Operating system for renewable energy project development and operations.
8+ YOE8+ years building web applications, leading engineers, architecting scalable web services, mentoring, and broad full‑stack experience; familiarity with React, TypeScript, Kotlin, and Rails; US-based remote.
React, TypeScript, Kotlin, Rails
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Pricing and Packaging
San Francisco or Denver or New York City
$189k-$278k/yr HybridFull Time
Gusto
Gusto: Cloud-based payroll and HR software for small businesses.
10+ YOE10+ years of software engineering; 2+ years as tech lead; strong backend experience; distributed systems; AI tooling experience; cross-functional collaboration; excellent communication; BS degree or equivalent.
Ruby, Java, Python, Go
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Staff Software Engineer, Product Security
San Francisco, California, United States
$220k-$330k/yr HybridFull Time
Harvey
Harvey: AI platform for legal research and document analysis.
8+ YOE8+ years in product security, application security, and security-focused software engineering; track record of remediating vulnerabilities; leading cross-functional security initiatives; mentoring; strong programming and communication skills.
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Staff Software Engineer Tech Lead, Firestore
San Francisco, California, United States
$207k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Google
GoogleNASDAQ: GOOGL: Provides online search, advertising, cloud computing, and consumer electronics.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent,8+ years software development experience,experience building distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure,proficiency with Java,strong communication and critical thinking.
Java
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Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead, ML Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
$190k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
HeartFlow
HeartFlowNASDAQ: HTFL: Provides AI-driven non-invasive cardiac diagnostic software and analysis.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience in ML infrastructure or distributed systems; strong Python; experience with cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), infra-as-code (CDK, Terraform), Ray, Kubernetes, and Apache Iceberg; mentoring and technical leadership experience.
Python, Ray, Kubernetes, Apache Iceberg, C++, CDK, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Bellevue or Seattle or San Francisco or Palo Alto or Los Angeles
$195k-$343k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Snap
SnapNYSE: SNAP: Develops social media applications and augmented reality technology.
9+ YOEBachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent; 9+ years software development experience (reduced with advanced degree); proven technical lead experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems; strong system design and leadership skills.
Go, Java, Python, C++, Kubernetes
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Staff Software Engineer, Stripe Dashboard
Toronto or United States or South San Francisco
$271k-$407k/yr HybridFull Time
Stripe
Stripe: Provides global financial infrastructure and payment processing for businesses.
10+ YOE10+ years building large-scale user-facing web applications, leading cross-functional engineering projects, deep frontend/full-stack expertise, performance engineering, and strong communication.
React
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Staff Software Engineer, GTM Systems
San Francisco, California, United States
$320k-$405k/yr HybridFull Time
Anthropic
Anthropic: Developing safe and reliable artificial intelligence systems.
Design and lead engineering practices for GTM systems, build delivery pipelines, standardize AI-assisted workflows, and run cross-team technical discussions.
Salesforce
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Staff Software Engineer (Pro Donate)
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
GoFundMe
GoFundMe: Provides an online platform for personal and nonprofit fundraising.
8+ YOE8+ years building customer-facing web apps, 2+ years at staff/lead scope, deep expertise with React/Next.js/TypeScript, frontend architecture, testing, observability, Git and CI/CD; payments and GraphQL/REST experience preferred.
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Git, CI/CD, GraphQL, REST
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Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Storage
San Francisco or San Jose or Bellevue
$314k-$465k/yr HybridFull Time
Lambda
Lambda: Provides high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI development.
10+ YOE10+ years storage systems engineering with 5+ years in a Staff/lead IC role; proficiency in low-level systems languages (C/C++/Rust/Go); hands-on experience with object, block, and file protocols and storage performance tooling; data center operational experience.
C, C++, Rust, Go, NFS, SMB, Lustre, DAOS, S3, NVMe-oF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NVMe, RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, NVIDIA BlueField, GPUDirect Storage, DPDK, SPDK, fio, blktrace, perf, eBPF, bpftrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Ceph, MinIO, Vast Data, Weka, NetApp, IBM Spectrum Scale
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Staff Robotics Software Engineer, Robot Behaviors
Fremont or Pittsburgh or Salem
$190k-$296k/yr HybridFull Time
Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics: Develops bipedal humanoid robots for industrial warehouse automation.
8+ YOELead design and development of humanoid robot behaviors; tech lead for autonomous systems; expert in Python/C++ and robotics software.
Python, C++, Behavior Trees, State Machines, Task Planners, Hierarchical Planning
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Staff Software Engineer - Corporate Development
San Francisco, California, United States
$192k-$240k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Datadog
DatadogNASDAQ: DDOG: Observability and security platform for cloud applications and infrastructure.
Experienced in product development or solution architecture with STEM degree or equivalent experience; strong communication, cloud and AI/ML knowledge, and ability to lead technical due diligence.
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