Staff Engineer

About the role:

In this role, you will:

• Own parts of our core backend infrastructure, which is a complex, real-time distributed system written in Python and Rust
• Own large, complex initiatives end-to-end, including projects with incomplete or evolving requirements, and deliver them with minimal guidance
• Take ownership of reducing our incident rate
• Solve stability issues and highly complex production issues
• Own the technical responsibilities related to our SOC 2 process, including managing the person responsible for its day-to-day execution
• Constantly improve our development velocity while maintaining a very high reliability standard

Requirements

• Previously a Staff or Principal Engineer at a startup company
• 10+ years of experience in Python development
• Previous leadership experience, including leading teams and driving large, ambiguously defined projects from concept through delivery
• Strong Python Asyncio experience
• Strong software design skills
• Excellent communicator in writing and orally
• Deep understanding of Networking Protocols, Operating Systems
• Deep knowledge of Python Profiling
• Experience in delivering and troubleshooting a production-grade cloud-based distributed system
• Kubernetes and Helm experience
• Experience with different observability stacks
• Strong LLM prompting skills, but also being able to work without them
• Experience with gRPC and its troubleshooting
• BSc in Software Development or equivalent industry experience

Bonus: 

• Previous experience owning technical responsibilities related to SOC 2 compliance
• An understanding of one of the following: WebRTC, STUN/TURN, SIP, RTP, HLS, RTMP
• Experience with a strongly typed language (Rust, C++, Go, Swift, Java, etc)
• Experience in building and troubleshooting a real-time low-level system (e.g. kernel, drivers, RTOS)
• Audio programming experience
• Being a contributor or maintainer of an open-source package

Qualities We're Looking For

• Fast - you know you're a 10X engineer, not just yet another senior engineer
• Resilience – being able to balance planned work with real-time issues in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Strong communication skills – in both written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce crisp and clear documentation
• Problem solver
• Extremely Strong ownership and independence
• Ability to translate incomplete requirements into an actual product
• A leader - able to lead projects or teams independently and with minimal guidance