Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Design, optimize, and maintain Linux kernels for DigitalOcean's compute and GPU fleets. Diagnose kernel and VM issues, deliver live-patch fixes, tune for latency/throughput/power, improve tooling and automation, implement monitoring, influence hardware roadmaps, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute upstream kernel patches.

Design, implement, and operate highly available backend services for Snap's growth notification platform across multiple channels. Own end-to-end architecture, lead multi-quarter technical roadmaps, drive large cross-functional projects, and ensure reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and incident response. Integrate upstream signals and downstream use cases, apply distributed-systems best practices, and mentor engineers to improve team effectiveness.

Drive technical leadership for ML-driven distributed systems at Chewy. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers in scalable software design, ensuring system excellence.

Lead the design of distributed systems, drive large initiatives, and enhance technical architecture at Whatnot, fostering rapid growth and stability.

Design, build, and run secure production infrastructure across cloud-native and air-gapped deployments. Own end-to-end platform outcomes, harden the artifact pipeline for signed releases, embed with teams to advise on security and deployment best practices, and partner with GRC on STIGs, CVE remediation, and audit readiness for classified environments.

The Staff Engineer leads technical projects, collaborates across teams, develops software strategy, ensures quality solutions, and mentors junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.

The Staff Engineer will develop and scale capacity engineering solutions, leading design and implementation, optimizing workload placements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective capacity management and infrastructure provisioning.

The role involves leading the Code Gen team to modernize legacy applications using AI-powered tools, ensuring system scalability and efficiency through collaboration and strategic technical decisions.

Serve as the technical lead for partner integrations of DNSid: design and build production-grade integrations, run POCs and workshops, produce enablement materials, translate partner requirements into product feedback, and own the path from demo to deployment while collaborating with product, standards, and engineering teams.

The role involves leading application performance improvements across multiple platforms, focusing on measurable metrics and driving engineering standards and workflow optimization, using both hands-on coding and strategic influence.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

The Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity will lead a remote team to enhance developer productivity, focusing on AI integration, tooling evaluation, and team development while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will enhance platform engineering by improving deployment strategies and developer experiences, establishing reliable systems and mentorship across teams.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly by contributing features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, collaborating with the open source community, and participating in architectural discussions.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

As a Staff Engineer at GEICO, you will lead technical architecture and development for cloud-native systems, particularly in communication strategies for insurance claims. Collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and impact millions of customers while driving operational excellence and adherence to technical standards.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead technical initiatives in payment systems, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive impactful changes.

Lead integration, validation, and fielding of advanced weapon capabilities on X-Bat across the full lifecycle. Define system behaviors and architectures, coordinate cross-functional integration, support lab/ground/flight tests, perform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to reduce integration risk and accelerate capability delivery.

Lead design and development of advanced electrical systems for autonomous aircraft, including circuit and subsystem design, part selection, schematic capture, simulation, verification, debugging, and production releases. Integrate embedded systems and sensors for autonomy, coordinate cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, define technical requirements, and develop automated test solutions to improve hardware reliability and production readiness.

Lead aircraft-level thermal analysis and characterization for VTOL unmanned aircraft. Develop and validate analytical and CFD models, run trade studies, define requirements, plan and analyze thermal tests, mentor teams, and mitigate aircraft thermal risks to meet mission-critical aerospace requirements.

Own and maintain native C++ build systems for autonomous aircraft. Improve developer velocity by reducing build/test cycle time, integrate CI with HIL and simulation, implement monitoring and alerts, troubleshoot build/test failures, and collaborate with engineers to design and deploy DevEx/DevOps solutions.

Design and implement high-quality C/C++ embedded avionics software for X-Bat UAVs. Lead cross-functional teams, own features from design to production, integrate firmware and autonomy systems, and develop HIL/virtualized test environments. Produce architecture and test documentation, build CI/test tools, prototype concepts, and ensure reliability, safety, and compliance for aerospace deployments.

Lead survivability engineering for autonomous aircraft: design and optimize low-observable features, perform EM signature modeling and RCS testing, partner with multidisciplinary teams and materials scientists, translate threats into survivability requirements, and support assessments and milestone decisions throughout the program lifecycle.

Design, develop, and field high-performance Ground Control Station and C2 software using C++/Qt/QML and QGroundControl. Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, define APIs/ICDs, debug integration/latency issues, support field tests, implement post-mission debrief tools, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.