Senior Staff Engineer: Cloud-Native Distributed Systems

Aspect Software; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspect is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to architect and build the next generation of our cloud-native, AI-driven platform. You will blend deep distributed systems expertise with hands-on engineering, setting direction while staying close to code to deliver production-ready software.

You will work with React, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, and Kubernetes/EKS, driving architectural decisions across teams and mentoring senior engineers in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in production software with ownership of architecture and technical direction.
• Deep experience designing and building scalable, highly available distributed systems in AWS.
• Strong hands-on engineering with React, TypeScript, and Node.js on modern SaaS platforms.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead reviews, and set pragmatic engineering standards.
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, microservices, and event-driven architectures is desired.

Responsibilities

• Architect distributed systems and evolve scalable, resilient applications in AWS/Kubernetes.
• Set technical direction across React/TypeScript/Node.js stack, APIs and microservices.
• Remain hands-on: prototype, review implementations, troubleshoot production issues.
• Provide Staff+ leadership, mentor senior engineers, drive design reviews and standards.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Hands-on leadership

Architectural direction

React

TypeScript

Node.js

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

Mentoring senior engineers

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

C#/.NET

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

Job description

Aspect is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to architect and build the next generation of our cloud-native, AI-driven platform. You will blend deep distributed systems expertise with hands-on engineering, setting direction while staying close to code to deliver production-ready software.

You will work with React, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, and Kubernetes/EKS, driving architectural decisions across teams and mentoring senior engineers in a fast-paced SaaS environment.