Staff Software Engineer, Architecture

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive currently seeks a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on execution across cloud infrastructure, backend services and data platforms. The role balances architectural judgment with practical implementation, serving as a senior individual contributor.

The candidate will steer design reviews, establish standards for CI/CD and observability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable and compliant solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, backend services and APIs, and data platforms.
• Contribute hands-on design and implementation to high-priority projects across software domains.
• Design and develop engineering patterns for APIs, service boundaries, data contracts, deployment models, observability, and reliability.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for cross-team initiatives and align with platform standards.
• Establish and reinforce standards for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, versioning, and health of services.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, product, quality, and security to meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor engineers across teams to raise design and implementation quality.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture design

API design

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering across the organization. This role will operate across cloud infrastructure, backend services and APIs, and data platforms, with a focus on architecture, engineering standards, and implementation. The successful candidate will serve as a senior individual contributor who combines architectural judgment with technical execution.

Essential Job Duties

• Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, backend services and APIs, and data platforms, ensuring that engineering practices are consistent, scalable, and broadly adoptable across the organization.
• Contribute hands-on design and implementation to high-priority projects, with the ability to dive deep across multiple software domains.
• Design and develop engineering patterns for APIs, service boundaries, data contracts, deployment models, observability, and operational reliability.
• Contribute to design of data services such as file and event ingestion and processing, as well as data platforms with governed data access for analytics teams.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for cross-team initiatives, helping the team make technical tradeoffs and align with platform standards.
• Help establish and reinforce standards for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, versioning, documentation, and health and operability requirements across service and platforms.
• Work closely with infrastructure, product, quality, and security to ensure solutions meet business, operational, and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor engineers across teams, raising the bar for design and implementation quality