Staff Software Engineer — AI-Native Platform & Customer Impact

Altana; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Parental Leave

Health Benefits

401(k) Savings

Job summary

Altana is hiring a Staff Engineer in Brooklyn, NY, with hybrid work flexibility. You will lead a small team, embed with product and design, and ship AI-native features that impact customers. The role focuses on end-to-end ownership, strong engineering standards, and measurable customer outcomes.

You will partner with product, design, and users to form hypotheses, build iterations, and drive adoption, while mentoring engineers toward customer-centric practices and rapid, responsible shipping.

Qualifications

• Deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
• Experience delivering incremental releases from concept to production.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Mentor engineers in customer-centric, hypothesis-driven product development.
• Partner with product teams to decide what to build and why.
• Drive end-to-end ownership from customer conversation to telemetry.
• Set technical standards and ensure change is traceable to customer outcomes.

Skills

Cloud deployments

Incremental releases

Leadership

Clean code

Communication

Team leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Altana is hiring a Staff Engineer in Brooklyn, NY, with hybrid work flexibility. You will lead a small team, embed with product and design, and ship AI-native features that impact customers. The role focuses on end-to-end ownership, strong engineering standards, and measurable customer outcomes.

You will partner with product, design, and users to form hypotheses, build iterations, and drive adoption, while mentoring engineers toward customer-centric practices and rapid, responsible shipping.