Senior Staff Software Engineer L6

Job Overview

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer L6 to provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and hands-on engineering impact across mission-critical applications. This role serves as a recognized technical authority, driving platform strategy, identity and security patterns, cloud modernization, and large-scale service design across business units and product lines.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in Java, relational databases, distributed systems, and cloud services with strong experience in OAuth2/OpenID Connect, federated identity, and SSO. This person will influence engineering standards, strategy, and roadmap direction while serving as a bridge between engineering and product.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architectural Strategy

• Lead architecture and design reviews, providing guidance on scalability, performance, security, and reliability across enterprise platforms.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, design principles, testing strategies, and architectural governance.
• Translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and platform modernization strategies.
• Drive the adoption of cloud-native, event-driven, and identity-first architectural patterns.

System Design & Hands-On Engineering

• Contribute directly to codebases, model engineering excellence and unblock high-risk initiatives.
• Review and evolve existing architectures to scale to millions of users and support robust data retrieval performance.
• Ensure interoperability across multiple APIs, services, and platforms
• Drive best practices in operational readiness, including performance testing, resiliency engineering, failure injection, and observability.

Operational & Reliability Ownership

• Monitor performance and platform SLAs using tools such as Datadog and define performance improvement plans grounded in data.
• Lead major incident response efforts and root cause analyses (RCA), driving systemic improvements and long-term risk reduction.

Cross-Team & Cross-Business Collaboration

• Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure technology strategies align with business outcomes.
• Influence roadmap prioritization and investment decisions with strong technical and business reasoning.
• Serve as a visible and trusted technical leader across the organization.

Mentorship, Talent Development & Leadership Multiplication

• Mentor and uplift senior engineers, Staff/Principal engineers, and technical leaders to expand organizational technical capacity.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Model high standards in communication, architectural thinking, engineering rigor, and strategic influence.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with increasing technical and leadership scope.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservice architectures, and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience scaling high-traffic, mission-critical systems in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence leaders across teams and functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, secure API design, and federated identity.
• Experience implementing federation and SSO using Azure AD B2C or other enterprise identity providers.
• Direct experience influencing roadmaps, modernization initiatives, or multi-year platform strategies.
• Demonstrated leadership in cloud modernization, developer productivity, and architectural transformation programs.