Staff Engineer — AI‑Driven Platform Architect

Gallup; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Gallup in San Francisco seeks a Staff Engineer to work with the head of engineering as a technical thought partner across a broad, multi-team initiative. You will mentor engineers, set AI-powered development standards, and collaborate with AI Infrastructure and Data Platform teams to push platform modernization.

You will surface opportunities, evaluate new tools and architectures, and translate strategy into concrete guidance for teams while hands-on contributing when needed from design through

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience, required
• At least eight years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at a staff or equivalent cross-team scope, required
• Track record of influencing technical direction and aligning multiple teams without direct management authority required
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in real production work, with the judgment to know where to trust them and where not to, required
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and technical leads and building shared technical standards across a group required
• Strong system design and architecture fundamentals, with comfort moving across different parts of a stack as initiatives demand required
• Experience partnering closely with an engineering leader (head of engineering, director, or vice president) in an advisory, thought-partner capacity preferred
• Experience with identity and access platforms (such as Auth0 or Okta), survey or assessment-driven products, or large-scale platform migrations preferred
• A commitment to working on-site at Gallup’s San Francisco office at least three days per week required

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the head of engineering as a technical thought partner across multiple concurrent initiatives, not tied to a single team's backlog
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering managers, tech leads and senior engineers across teams, especially on architecture decisions with cross-team consequences
• Bring effective AI-assisted engineering practices into the teams you work with, using AI where it genuinely speeds things up and keeping human judgment as the check
• Lead a community of practice for senior engineers and tech leads, creating space for shared standards and technical growth outside the reporting line
• Hunt down emerging tools, techniques and architectural patterns before anyone asks you to, and bring concrete, evaluated recommendations back to engineering leadership
• Shape what gets built next and how we'll know it worked, championing data and instrumentation as the basis for those calls
• Step into critical initiatives as a hands-on contributor when the problem calls for it, from early design through to production
• Translate high-level technical strategy (platform consolidation, identity and access modernization, AI tooling adoption) into concrete guidance teams can act on

Skills

Cross-team influence

AI fluency

No formal authority

Proactive finder

Strong partnerships

Mentorship

Broad scope impact

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Auth0/Okta

Job description

Gallup in San Francisco seeks a Staff Engineer to work with the head of engineering as a technical thought partner across a broad, multi-team initiative. You will mentor engineers, set AI-powered development standards, and collaborate with AI Infrastructure and Data Platform teams to push platform modernization.

You will surface opportunities, evaluate new tools and architectures, and translate strategy into concrete guidance for teams while hands-on contributing when needed from design through