Staff Software Engineer: Enterprise Platform Architect

Socket.dev; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 182,500 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Unlimited vacation

Educational reimbursements

Wellness reimbursements

Job summary

Ridgeline is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and evolve extensible enterprise platform frameworks used by multiple product teams. You will shape data models, APIs, and event-driven workflows to balance long-term platform direction with immediate delivery.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Platform, Product, and other teams. The role emphasizes scalability, security, and a strong developer experience, with AI-assisted tooling to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with architecting shared platforms or frameworks.
• Ability to decompose complex problems and evolve systems iteratively.
• Strong backend engineering with Java/Kotlin/Python and PostgreSQL, plus production operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve extensible enterprise platform frameworks used by multiple teams.
• Lead architecture discussions for shared infrastructure, data models, APIs, and event-driven workflows.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate across Platform, Product, and other teams to accelerate delivery.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Java/Kotlin/Python

PostgreSQL

Tools

JIRA

Kubernetes

Job description

Ridgeline is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and evolve extensible enterprise platform frameworks used by multiple product teams. You will shape data models, APIs, and event-driven workflows to balance long-term platform direction with immediate delivery.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Platform, Product, and other teams. The role emphasizes scalability, security, and a strong developer experience, with AI-assisted tooling to