Senior Staff Architect - AI & Distributed Systems

BigCommerce Pty

Austin (TX)

Hybrid

USD 186,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Commerce seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems powering our commerce platform. You will guide cross-domain decisions, mentor engineers, and drive AI integrations including GenAI into current and future products.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, designers, and engineering leaders worldwide to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performance systems. This is a hybrid Austin-based position.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
Experience architecting and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
Proven leadership in technical direction and architecture.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and microservices.

Responsibilities

Lead design, development, and evolution of scalable distributed systems.
Drive architectural discussions across multiple domains and teams.
Integrate AI technologies, including GenAI, into products.
Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across teams.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Architectural direction

Mentorship

Cross-team collaboration

Engineering leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Sentry

Kibana

Datadog

AWS

GCP

Job description

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, designers, and engineering leaders worldwide to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performance systems. This is a hybrid Austin-based position.

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