Staff Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud & Architecture Leader

Artisan Management LLC; Asheville (NC); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k matching

Job summary

Artisan Studios in Asheville, NC seeks a Staff Engineer to lead technical direction across client engagements and set high engineering standards. You will be hands-on where needed, mentor senior engineers, and grow into organizational leadership with delivery health and strategy responsibilities.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, cloud-native systems on AWS, and a focus on security, SOC 2 compliance, and scalable architecture in a remote-first consultancy.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, with senior/architect experience.
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams.
• Consulting or professional services background preferred.
• Strong hands-on in cloud-native systems on AWS, architecture and code.
• Daily use of AI coding agents and leading AI adoption.
• Mentoring senior engineers and team leads; clear communication.
• Experience delivering generative AI solutions for clients.
• SOC 2 or similar compliance experience in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across client engagements and reviews.
• Act as technical lead on high-risk engagements and hands-on when needed.
• Own Spec‑Driven Development playbook and AI‑assisted standards.
• Own engineering standards: code quality, testing, security and ADRs.
• Identify and fix delivery and technical risks early.
• Lead technical presales: scoping, architecture, estimates, SOWs.
• Mentor and raise the technical bar across teams.
• Define hiring bar and conduct senior technical interviews.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AWS

AI adoption

Mentoring

Communication

Solution architecture

Cloud-native systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Spacelift

AWS

Cursor / Claude Code

Job description

Artisan Studios in Asheville, NC seeks a Staff Engineer to lead technical direction across client engagements and set high engineering standards. You will be hands-on where needed, mentor senior engineers, and grow into organizational leadership with delivery health and strategy responsibilities.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, cloud-native systems on AWS, and a focus on security, SOC 2 compliance, and scalable architecture in a remote-first consultancy.