Staff Software Engineer

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and evolution of a scalable DaaS platform powering thousands of engineers.

Responsibilities include building high-throughput streaming data pipelines, defining architecture, mentoring teammates, and advancing CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices across data domains to improve reliability and developer productivity at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable data platforms.
• Strong understanding of streaming data pipelines and real-time processing.
• Ability to define and enforce data standards and architecture across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build highly scalable distributed systems leveraging event-based and streaming data pipelines.
• Provide self-service APIs and applications to access data.
• Collaborate with core engineering to evolve data models as business needs grow.
• Apply CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Data pipelines

API design

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Mentoring

Data modeling

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and evolution of a modern, scalable Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform that supports Intuitive Digital products and enables more than 2,000 engineers across the organization. This role is responsible for owning and advancing critical components of our real-time and micro-batch data pipelines that power product development, internal tools, and analytics. The engineer will provide architectural direction, influence cross-team data standards, ensure reliability and performance at scale, and drive strategic initiatives that improve developer productivity and data accessibility across the organization.

Major work will focus on enabling high-throughput, low-latency data delivery through streaming pipelines, dynamic transformations, and APIs, driving application development, AI/ML, and actionable insights. You will help define the architecture and engineering practices that support self-service analytics and operational decision-making on scale.

Essential Job Duties

• Build highly scalable distributed systems that leverage event-based and streaming data pipelines to handle ingestion and processing of robot, manufacturing, and clinical data

• Enable users by providing self-service APIs and applications to access and interact with data

• Work closely with core engineering teams to consistently evolve data models based on growing business needs

• Apply and evangelize software development best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and microservice architectures

• Effectively participate in the team's planning, code reviews, KPI reviews, and design discussions leading to continuous improvement in these areas.

• Act as a technical leader within the data domain driving best practices, mentoring teammates, and continuously improving how data is produced, shared, and consumed across the organization