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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Altana

Skills

Required

  • proof-of-concept
  • MVP
  • cloud-hosted environments
  • code

Preferred

  • container technologies
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • workflow orchestration
  • Temporal
  • construct APIs

Join our Engineering team as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in building out our AI-driven platform. You will work closely with Data Scientists, define technical requirements, develop implementation plans, and maintain our customer-facing workflows. You will also mentor developers, drive technical decision-making, and serve as a domain expert for a portion of the product surface area.

Responsibilities

  • Ingest product requirements, define technical requirements, and design practical, iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals.
  • Work closely with Data Scientists on projects to analyze and observe world-scale datasets, write code that can scale to produce never-before-seen insights, and construct APIs to deliver our product vision.
  • Drive technical decision-making and problem-solving across the team, ensuring solutions are efficient, scalable, and maintainable.

Requirements

You have strong written and verbal communication skills

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • You have experience with taking over codebases and making them your own, carrying forward with new feature development
  • You are a master of prioritizing and picking your area of focus intentionally

Experience leading other engineers on complex projects

  • 12+ years of real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments
  • Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems
  • You care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing
  • You have demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production
  • You’ve deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments

Preferred

  • Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience using workflow orchestration technologies like Temporal

Pay

USD 225,000 - 265,000