Staff Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing healthcare technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Guide the technical strategy for a platform engineering group responsible for large-scale data movement between internal services and outside systems. Take cross-team initiatives from early design to live operation while coaching experienced engineers and strengthening engineering practices.

What you'll do

- Define the technical roadmap for a data platform and decide what gets built and how it is delivered as demand grows.

- Own the architecture for data pipelines, workflow engines and storage layers that exchange information with a wide range of external systems.

- Look several quarters ahead for scaling and reliability concerns and resolve them before they cause outages.

- Set expectations for monitoring, tracing, alerting, service level targets and safe production releases.

- Drive large initiatives that span multiple systems, covering design, build, migration, launch and ongoing operations.

- Work with platform and product colleagues to safeguard sensitive information, strengthen security controls and meet compliance obligations.

- Coach senior engineers, lead design discussions and offer candid, constructive feedback.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- A decade or more of hands-on experience designing and running large, high-volume distributed software.

- Advanced knowledge of Postgres or a comparable relational database, including concurrency handling and query and storage tuning.

- A track record of making sound architectural calls on long-running projects with real-world limits.

- Production experience with a major cloud platform and container orchestration, plus strong backend skills in Python and Go.

- Working knowledge of core network behavior and fluency with monitoring and observability tooling.

- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- Skill at translating engineering tradeoffs into plain language that business partners can act on.

- Experience guiding experienced engineers through reviews and feedback.

- A habit of spotting structural weaknesses early and fixing their underlying causes.

- Comfort with ambiguity and pace in a young company, including frequent releases and carrying work from concept to delivery.

- Ability to work hybrid from the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles; this role is not remote.

Bonus points

- Background with healthcare data exchange standards, or with regulated environments requiring HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance; fintech or fast-growing SaaS experience is also valued.

- Experience with durable workflow orchestration tools.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 210,000 to 275,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Parental leave

- Flexible time off

- Pre-tax health and commuter benefits

Location and work model

- San Francisco, Mountain View or Los Angeles, CA, United States

- Hybrid

- Full-time