Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Embakire Workforce; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

A leading cloud-native SaaS company is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco to design resilient backend systems and APIs. This role involves driving architecture decisions, coding best practices, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience with backend systems and cloud platforms. The company offers competitive compensation, a hybrid work model, and a culture focused on growth and mentorship.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration.
• Strong knowledge of REST/GraphQL API design.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservices and backend APIs.
• Drive architecture decisions across the stack.
• Lead code reviews and establish best practices.

Skills

Backend systems in production

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Microservices architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Python

Java

Go

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

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This range is provided by Embakire Workforce. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$180,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr

About The Opportunity

Join a high-velocity engineering team that designs and ships resilient backend systems, APIs, and platform services used by cross-functional product teams. You will drive technical ownership for components that require strong systems thinking, performance tuning, and production reliability at scale.

Industry & Sector: Cloud-native Enterprise SaaS delivering scalable developer tools and infrastructure solutions for modern engineering organizations. We build distributed, production-grade systems that power mission-critical workloads for global customers.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own highly available microservices and backend APIs that serve large-scale traffic with low latency.
• Drive architecture and implementation decisions across the stack: data models, storage patterns (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and event-driven systems.
• Ship secure, well-tested code—lead code reviews, define testing strategies, and establish CI/CD best practices.
• Instrument systems for observability: metrics, tracing, and logging; proactively diagnose and resolve production incidents.
• Collaborate with product, security, and SRE teams to scope features, estimate delivery, and define SLAs and SLOs.
• Mentor engineers, promote engineering excellence, and contribute to roadmap and technical planning.

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5+ years building backend systems or platform services in production (Python, Java, or Go).
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, REST/GraphQL API design, and database modeling (SQL & NoSQL).
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability tooling.

Preferred

• Experience driving reliability engineering practices (SLOs, incident retrospectives) and performance optimization at scale.
• Background in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or large-scale data processing.

Benefits & Culture Highlights

• Hybrid work model with flexible remote days and collaborative on-site engineering sprints.
• Competitive compensation, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision).
• Growth-focused culture: mentorship, learning stipends, and frequent technical brown-bags.

We seek pragmatic engineers who care about user impact, code quality, and system reliability. If you enjoy owning end-to-end outcomes and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, this role offers a platform to influence technical direction and deliver meaningful product outcomes.

Note: This listing summarizes responsibilities and qualifications for the Senior Staff Software Engineer role as described by Embakire Workforce.