Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Rockstar; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 7,389,162 - 9,852,216; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

401k

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Rockstar is seeking a Senior/Staff Engineer in San Mateo to drive initiatives with significant business and technical impact. The role involves building complex systems that enhance enterprise accounting automation and requires 5+ years of experience in high-growth environments.

Join a fast-paced, mission-driven startup where your decisions shape product direction. The position offers competitive salary, equity, and benefits, including 401k and unlimited PTO, all while collaborating closely with a world-class engineering team.

Qualifications

• Typically 5+ years building systems at high-growth companies.
• Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience with AI agents, data pipelines, mission-critical systems, or complex workflow engines is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive initiatives with broad business and technical impact.
• Build systems that power enterprise accounting automation.
• Scale the platform to support growing enterprise workloads.
• Architect a durable and scalable financial data processing layer.
• Solve intricate accounting workflows.

Skills

Web development

Relational databases

Distributed systems

AI agents

Data pipelines

Complex workflow engines

Job description

Rockstar is recruiting for an agentic AI platform company that automates enterprise accounting. They are building a system that handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust executions that must be accurate and reliable. They are tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation and have assembled a world-class engineering team with staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures, and is trusted by category-defining customers like Scale AI and Rippling.

Role Overview

As a senior/staff engineer, you will be driving initiatives with broad business and technical impact. This role is not tied to a single area - senior/staff engineers at the company help solve its most important and complex problems.

Notable Challenges Include:

• Building agentic systems that power real-world enterprise accounting automation
• Scaling the platform to support growing enterprise workloads
• Architecting a durable and scalable financial data processing layer
• Building the infrastructure that powers the agentic systems
• Solving intricate accounting workflows through clean and robust abstractions

You’ll own major product and engineering areas and get to work closely with customers. Beyond technical excellence, the company values engineers who are curious and take initiative.

What We're Looking For

• Typically 5+ years building systems at high-growth companies.
• Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience with AI agents, data pipelines, mission-critical systems (e.g. fintech), or complex workflow engines is a strong plus.
• Loves in-person culture, 5 days a week in office in downtown San Mateo.

Why Join Us

• Be a core part of a mission-driven startup looking to transform accounting processes.
• Work in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly impact product direction and company growth.
• Opportunity to grow with the company and build a technical team from the ground up.
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO).

Join them in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!