Senior Staff Engineer: Architect Modern Cloud Platform

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead modernization across multiple engineering teams. As a hands-on contributor, you will own technical direction for a major platform, turning business priorities into delivery plans and partnering with leadership to align with the broader strategy.

You will drive domain architecture, technical delivery, Gen AI pilots, security, reliability, and operational excellence while mentoring engineers and promoting reusable patterns.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with leadership across multiple teams.
• Cloud-native architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP including serverless and event-driven systems.
• Experience designing, building, and operating secure, scalable distributed systems and modernizing legacy applications.
• Ability to evaluate SaaS and low-code/no-code platforms, with Gen AI capabilities.
• Track record of navigating ambiguity and delivering measurable business outcomes through cross-team collaboration.
• Strong coding and design skills to improve quality, reliability, and engineering practices.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders and mentoring senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Domain Architecture: Lead modernization across related systems and define scalable architecture.
• Technical Delivery: Turn ambiguous problems into delivery plans and remove blockers from prototyping to production.
• Hands-on Engineering: Build components, lead design reviews, and solve cross-team problems.
• Platform Choices: Evaluate SaaS, low-code/no-code, and custom solutions for value and maintainability.
• Gen AI Adoption: Guide practical Gen AI pilots, assess data handling and costs.
• Operational Excellence: Improve testing, observability, and reliability; lead incident resolution.
• Business Alignment: Align priorities with leaders; measure gains in customer outcomes and speed.
• Mentoring and Standards: Mentor engineers and promote reusable patterns and debt reduction.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

AWS/Azure/GCP

Distributed systems

Gen AI capabilities

Ambiguity navigation

Coding and design

Communication

Mentoring senior engineers

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Redis/ElastiCache

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Versant Media seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead modernization across multiple engineering teams. As a hands-on contributor, you will own technical direction for a major platform, turning business priorities into delivery plans and partnering with leadership to align with the broader strategy.

You will drive domain architecture, technical delivery, Gen AI pilots, security, reliability, and operational excellence while mentoring engineers and promoting reusable patterns.