Senior Staff Engineer — Scalable Distributed Systems

Pragmatike; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a rapidly scaling technology company building sophisticated infrastructure and software systems. You will join as a Member of Technical Staff to lead high‑impact technical initiatives spanning multiple teams.

The role emphasizes architecture, distributed systems, and engineering leadership, with opportunities to influence long‑term platform direction and technology decisions in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems and system architecture.
• Deep proficiency in at least one major programming language.
• Experience operating systems at meaningful scale.
• Strong technical leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to influence across teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and implementation of critical platform capabilities.
• Own complex technical initiatives from conception through production.
• Design scalable distributed systems and services.
• Identify and resolve architectural, reliability, and performance bottlenecks.
• Establish engineering patterns and technical standards.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Distributed systems

System architecture

Programming language

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Distributed compute

Job description

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a rapidly scaling technology company building sophisticated infrastructure and software systems. You will join as a Member of Technical Staff to lead high‑impact technical initiatives spanning multiple teams.

The role emphasizes architecture, distributed systems, and engineering leadership, with opportunities to influence long‑term platform direction and technology decisions in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams.