Staff Engineer

Caesars Entertainment; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Caesars Entertainment is seeking a Staff Engineer to serve as a technical authority across our ecommerce and digital product platforms, including Caesars.com and Caesars Rewards. You will drive architectural consistency, influence roadmaps, and mentor engineers across multiple teams to deliver scalable, reliable digital experiences for guests worldwide.

The role emphasizes strategic planning, multi-team coordination, and solving high-impact technical challenges in a fast-paced hospitality tech

Qualifications

• Cross-team architectural leadership experience
• Strong problem-solving for large-scale systems
• Strategic technical planning with roadmaps

Responsibilities

• Cross-Team Architectural Leadership: Drives technical strategy alignment and ensures architectural consistency across multiple teams. Establishes patterns and standards adopted across the department.
• Complex Problem Resolution: Handles the most complex technical challenges, large-scale redesigns, distributed systems optimization, and new technology paradigms.
• Strategic Technical Planning: Identifies and solves problems, translates objectives into multi-quarter roadmaps with business justification.

Job description

WE ARE CAESARS

At Caesars Entertainment, our Mission, Vision & Values reflect our unique purpose, providing people with possibilities and places to have fun. Our Mission, Vision & Values represent a unifying and inspiring way forward, and all Team Members are expected to uphold them.

Our Mission: “Create the Extraordinary\"

Our Vision: “We create spectacular worlds that immerse, inspire and connect you. We don’t perform magic; we create it with excellence.”

Our Values: “Blaze the Trail, Together We Win, All-In on Service”

Our corporate social responsibility framework, People Planet Play, represents our continuous dedication to enhancing economic development, uplifting the wellbeing of our Team Members and their families, and making positive contributions to the communities we operate in.

Job Summary

Reporting to a Director or Sr.Director of Engineering, the Staff Engineer operates across multiple teams and departments as a technical authority for significant portions of our systems that power our digital capabilities and experiences on Caesars.com and Caesars Rewards digital loyalty platforms. These experiences encompass websites, apps, bots, voice, and emerging digital channels focusing on hospitality experiences.

The Caesars Entertainment Ecommerce and Digital Product team delivers exciting digital customer experiences across a wide set of product modalities that fuel the imaginations and eliminates friction for our guests at home, at our resorts, or on the go. Our iconic global brands include Caesars Palace, Eldorado, Flamingo, Horseshoe, The LINQ, Harrah’s, Tropicana, Planet Hollywood, Paris, Nobu Hotel, and many more.

The Staff Engineer drives technical strategy alignment, influences roadmaps, and ensures architectural consistency across teams. They handle the most complex technical challenges in their department and establish patterns that become organizational standards. Their decisions shape how dozens of engineers approach problems, connecting millions of customers to our entertainment, dining, shopping, and hospitality experiences.

How You Will Create the Extraordinary

• Cross-Team Architectural Leadership: Drives technical strategy alignment and ensures architectural consistency across multiple teams. Makes decisions that shape how dozens of engineers approach problems. Establishes patterns and standards adopted across the department.
• Complex Problem Resolution: Handles the most complex technical challenges in the department - large-scale redesigns, distributed system optimization, and new technology paradigms. Serves as the escalation point for novel problems that require deep expertise and creative solutions.
• Strategic Technical Planning: Identifies and solves problems others haven’t seen yet, working from minimal direction. Spots inefficiencies, technical debt, or architectural gaps affecting multiple teams and develops comprehensive proposals with business justification. Translates strategic objectives into multi-quarter technical roadmaps with clear success