Staff Platform Engineer & Architecture Lead

WME | William Morris Endeavor; United States; À distance; USD 176 000 - 235 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WME is building the next generation of internal platforms powering one of the world’s leading entertainment companies. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll own a major area of the platform and guide multiple teams through architectural decisions that shape how products connect relationships, deals, and opportunities globally.

You’ll operate above day-to-day execution, drive technical health, and mentor engineers, while partnering with a TPM to manage planning cadence and cross-team dependencies.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack background with React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
• Backend experience with Node.js and scalable services/APIs (REST and gRPC).
• Experience designing and managing relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
• Cloud infrastructure experience; Azure preferred, with serverless functions and managed services.
• Containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes; Terraform for IaC.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps).
• Strong product instincts and collaborative mindset.

Responsabilités

• Own an area of the platform and its outcomes across multiple teams.
• Raise risk early and advocate for realistic scope and timelines.
• Provide context to engineers and connect company direction with execution.
• Own technical health including staffing, delivery pace, and architecture.
• Own the roadmap and defend sequencing for the next quarter.
• Grow engineering leaders and mentor talent.

Connaissances

Full-stack development

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Leadership

Architectural design

Outils

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

REST APIs

gRPC

Description du poste

WME is building the next generation of internal platforms powering one of the world’s leading entertainment companies. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll own a major area of the platform and guide multiple teams through architectural decisions that shape how products connect relationships, deals, and opportunities globally.

You’ll operate above day-to-day execution, drive technical health, and mentor engineers, while partnering with a TPM to manage planning cadence and cross-team dependencies.