Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud

VTEX; Brasil; Teletrabalho; BRL 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading global commerce platform is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive architectural decisions and lead initiatives for their cloud platform. This high-impact role demands expertise in backend and cloud engineering, along with strong leadership skills. You will work on complex systems, influence technical standards, and participate in hiring and evaluations. The company promotes a flexible work schedule and offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and profit-sharing programs.

Serviços

Annual profit-sharing program

Health, dental, and life insurance

Flexible meal allowance

Extended parental leaves

Flexible work schedule

Financial assistance for work-from-home setup

Wellness program

Free shipping on VTEX stores

Qualificações

• Solid experience in backend and/or cloud engineering.
• Technical depth in distributed infra, orchestration, networking, and/or security.
• Track record of high-impact technical leadership.
• Experience with cross-team projects and alignment with non-technical areas.
• Ability to navigate problems with high uncertainty and large scale.
• Strong communication and influence.

Responsabilidades

• Anticipate risks in critical systems to prevent problems.
• Solve complex problems involving multiple systems and services.
• Define technical directions for the Cloud domain.
• Build long-term technical vision for critical domains.
• Lead cross-team and cross-domain projects.
• Participate in hiring and evaluations to elevate technical level.

Conhecimentos

Backend and/or cloud engineering

Distributed infrastructure

Networking

Security

Technical leadership

Strong communication

Cross-team project management

Descrição da oferta de emprego

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Cloud Platform), you will work at the core of VTEX's infrastructure, leading initiatives that impact all engineering and all our customers globally. You will be one of the team's main technical references, driving architectural decisions, risk mitigation, and technological evolution of one of the largest-scale platforms in Latin America. This role exists to design and operate the future of our infrastructure: scalable, resilient, observable, cost-efficient, and secure. It is a role of extremely high impact and visibility.

RESPONSABILITIES

• Find opportunities and anticipate risks in critical systems — preventing problems from design to production and increasing resilience and reliability.
• Solve complex and ambiguous problems involving multiple systems and services, often spanning different technical domains (e.g., Cloud, Observability, Edge, Networking, Databases, Security).
• Define technical directions for the Cloud domain, influencing standards, practices, and architectural decisions beyond your team, even without formal authority.
• Build the long-term technical vision for critical domains, defining engineering golden paths used across the entire company.
• Balance trade-offs between short and long term, local vs. global, optimization vs. time-to-market.
• Lead cross-team and cross-domain projects, ensuring efficient execution, influencing EMs, PMs, and technical leadership to converge on strategic solutions.
• Act as a bar-raiser, participating in hiring, promotions, and evaluations, helping to elevate the company's technical level.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have solid experience in backend and/or cloud engineering
• You demonstrate technical depth in distributed infra, orchestration, networking, and/or security
• You have a track record of high-impact technical leadership (not just feature ownership)
• You have led and have experience with cross-team projects and alignment with non-technical areas
• You demonstrate the ability to navigate problems with a high degree of uncertainty and large scale
• You have strong communication and influence

ABOUT VTEX

VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the composable and complete commerce platform that delivers more efficiency and less maintenance to organizations seeking to make smarter IT investments and modernize their tech stack. Through our pragmatic composability approach, we empower brands, distributors, and retailers with unparalleled flexibility and comprehensive solutions, enabling them to invest solely in what provides a clear business advantage and boosts profitability. VTEX is trusted by 2,600 global B2C and B2B clients, including Carrefour, Colgate, Motorola, Sony, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool, having 3,500 active online stores across 43 countries (as of FY ended on December 31, 2023). For more information, visit www.vtex.com .

BENEFITS

• Annual profit-sharing program and equity eligibility
• Health, dental, and life insurance with national coverage provided by VTEX
• Flexible meal allowance
• Extended parental leaves
• Flexible work schedule and remote-first culture
• Financial assistance to build your work-from-home setup
• Wellness program
• Free shipping on 1000+ VTEX stores