Senior Staff Engineer — Platform Modernization & Gen AI

Versant; New Jersey; On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer in New Jersey to lead modernization efforts across multiple engineering teams. You will own the technical direction for major platforms, drive cloud-native initiatives, and guide Gen AI pilots while mentoring senior engineers.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals, ensure reliable delivery, and uphold high engineering standards across teams in a fast‑paced media and entertainment environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with leadership across multiple teams.
• Hands‑on expertise in cloud‑native architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience designing, building, and operating secure, scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization across related systems with scalable architecture and secure integration patterns.
• Turn ambiguous problems into delivery plans and coordinate multi‑team dependencies.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Gen AI

Mentoring

Cross-team delivery

Stakeholder comms

Code reviews

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Serverless

Job description

Versant is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer in New Jersey to lead modernization efforts across multiple engineering teams. You will own the technical direction for major platforms, drive cloud-native initiatives, and guide Gen AI pilots while mentoring senior engineers.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals, ensure reliable delivery, and uphold high engineering standards across teams in a fast‑paced media and entertainment environment.