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Embakire Workforce

Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Embakire Workforce, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Overview

2 weeks ago Be among the first 25 applicants This range is provided by Embakire Workforce. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range $180,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr About The Opportunity

Join a high-velocity engineering team that designs and ships resilient backend systems, APIs, and platform services used by cross-functional product teams. You will drive technical ownership for components that require strong systems thinking, performance tuning, and production reliability at scale. Industry & Sector:

Cloud-native Enterprise SaaS delivering scalable developer tools and infrastructure solutions for modern engineering organizations. We build distributed, production-grade systems that power mission-critical workloads for global customers. Role & Responsibilities Design, implement, and own highly available microservices and backend APIs that serve large-scale traffic with low latency. Drive architecture and implementation decisions across the stack: data models, storage patterns (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and event-driven systems. Ship secure, well-tested codelead code reviews, define testing strategies, and establish CI/CD best practices. Instrument systems for observability: metrics, tracing, and logging; proactively diagnose and resolve production incidents. Collaborate with product, security, and SRE teams to scope features, estimate delivery, and define SLAs and SLOs. Mentor engineers, promote engineering excellence, and contribute to roadmap and technical planning.

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have 5+ years building backend systems or platform services in production (Python, Java, or Go). Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes). Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, REST/GraphQL API design, and database modeling (SQL & NoSQL). Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability tooling.

Preferred Experience driving reliability engineering practices (SLOs, incident retrospectives) and performance optimization at scale. Background in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or large-scale data processing.

Benefits & Culture Highlights

Hybrid work model with flexible remote days and collaborative on-site engineering sprints. Competitive compensation, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision). Growth-focused culture: mentorship, learning stipends, and frequent technical brown-bags.

We seek pragmatic engineers who care about user impact, code quality, and system reliability. If you enjoy owning end-to-end outcomes and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, this role offers a platform to influence technical direction and deliver meaningful product outcomes. Note: This listing summarizes responsibilities and qualifications for the Senior Staff Software Engineer role as described by Embakire Workforce. #J-18808-Ljbffr