Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Develop and operate scalable, highly available analytics platform microservices and data-processing systems. Responsibilities include architecture, full-stack development, feature delivery, optimization, troubleshooting, operations, benchmarking, and collaboration with UX, TechOps, and Product teams. The role requires participation in on-call rotations and solving large-scale distributed systems challenges involving data ingestion, storage, processing, caching, routing, queues, and event-driven systems.

Leads advanced manufacturing engineering across multiple defense and aerospace programs. Responsibilities include defining manufacturing processes, mapping material bills of manufacturing, designing workstations and tooling, creating controlled work instructions, conducting time studies, improving throughput through lean methods, implementing MES/QMS systems, supporting quality and first article inspection readiness, managing engineering change orders, and mentoring engineers during new production-line development.

Design, implement, operate, and scale critical backend services, including identity, social graph, and persistence systems. Collaborate across teams to deliver product solutions, ensure availability and operational excellence, test and debug code, and participate in incident resolution. The role requires technical leadership, distributed-systems expertise, and effective use of AI development tools while maintaining security, performance, and production-quality standards.

Leads end-to-end mission systems engineering for unmanned aircraft, including architecture, requirements, payloads, avionics, weapons, communications, integration, certification, and flight testing. Performs trade studies and system-of-systems analysis, oversees hardware-in-the-loop and flight-test campaigns, ensures compliance with aerospace standards, and collaborates with program teams, customers, partners, and suppliers to deliver fielded capabilities.

Design and develop structural components and assemblies for autonomous UAVs from concept through production release. Perform CAD modeling, hand stress calculations, limited FEA, drawing release, and structural validation. Collaborate with aerodynamics, propulsion, avionics, payload, manufacturing, and flight-test teams. Support hardware integration, testing, failure analysis, design reviews, and resolution of build issues while ensuring aerospace standards, manufacturability, structural integrity, and system integration.

Leads architecture, engineering, governance, and continuous improvement for enterprise Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities. Designs secure, reliable solutions across Microsoft Graph, Copilot, identity, automation, APIs, and platform integrations. Establishes engineering standards, reusable tooling, observability, testing, and operational practices while guiding cross-functional teams, evaluating technology, managing roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and communicating technical strategy to executives and business partners.

Build and operate GM’s internal cloud platform, including self-service infrastructure, APIs, CLI and MCP tools, Kubernetes runtime capabilities, multi-region reliability, and automated delivery workflows. Define technical direction, eliminate developer toil, establish golden paths, improve SLOs and observability, partner with SRE on incidents, mentor engineers, and collaborate with application teams to improve developer experience.

Lead the technical direction of Uber’s global edge infrastructure and network platform. Develop and manage systems that improve reliability, security, performance, and observability; diagnose outages and networking issues; collaborate across teams; drive major initiatives; and mentor engineers. The role focuses on large-scale distributed systems, networking protocols, low-latency data transmission, cloud networking, monitoring tools, and platform innovation.

Own the architecture and technical direction of a high-volume recognition platform spanning edge ingestion, identity resolution, real-time decisioning, notifications, and operator tools. Lead streaming pipeline design, privacy and consent models, observability, reliability, testing, progressive delivery, RFCs, cross-functional alignment, and mentorship. Build systems that combine deterministic rules with probabilistic computer vision signals under physical-world deployment constraints.

Lead the complete development lifecycle of aircraft electrical systems for an autonomous aircraft, including requirements, architecture, design, component selection, integration, verification, ground and flight testing, and production support. The role covers power distribution, conversion, protection, wiring, grounding, interfaces, load analysis, troubleshooting, supplier coordination, technical reviews, engineering changes, and mentoring.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for Affirm’s high-volume observability platform. Design telemetry pipelines and sampling strategies, improve reliability and cost efficiency, integrate observability into AI-assisted development, and drive platform adoption across engineering teams. Remain hands-on while mentoring six engineers, leading cross-functional initiatives, establishing engineering standards, and overseeing monitoring, alerting, on-call operations, and system availability.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Growth Engineering platforms. Build scalable backend infrastructure, distributed services, real-time data systems, AI-native capabilities, and reliable automation workflows. Partner cross-functionally to solve ambiguous business problems, mentor engineers, and deliver high-impact solutions from design through production.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading design and delivery of large-scale order platform capabilities spanning cloud and point-of-sale systems. The role drives architecture, performance, reliability, API design, code quality, incident response, and technical roadmap alignment. It also requires cross-team collaboration, domain expertise in order processing and synchronization, mentoring engineers, and using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

Lead frontend technical strategy for Affirm’s checkout decision orchestration systems. Design and architect scalable web applications, guide major technical initiatives, improve reliability and operational processes, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on building fast, clear, and reliable checkout experiences using modern declarative UI frameworks.

Develop and qualify materials and manufacturing processes for flight-critical autonomous aircraft hardware. Maintain material, process, and QA specifications; guide fatigue and corrosion prevention; support environmental qualification testing; design qualification test plans; collaborate with suppliers and multifunctional teams; assist with nonconformance disposition; and select materials and processes for production.

Design and integrate electromechanical avionics systems from concept through production, including packaging, electrical interconnects, thermal management, structural and modal analysis, aircraft integration, compliance, validation, failure analysis, and flight-test readiness. The role requires collaboration with electrical engineers on PCB constraints, circuit cards, harnesses, and mechanical interfaces, using CAD, eCAD, manufacturing, and testing expertise in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Lead the architecture, development, customization, and integration of NetSuite finance systems supporting accounting, Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report processes. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Audit, and Data Engineering teams to implement controls, improve close processes, enhance reporting, ensure SOX and GAAP compliance, and manage integrations. Establish NetSuite engineering standards, mentor engineers, oversee data governance, and provide technical leadership for scalable finance technology solutions.

Design and develop electromechanical packaging for high-voltage power electronics, including electrical interconnects, thermal management, and aircraft integration. Perform structural, thermal, vibration, clearance, EMI/EMC, and PCBA hardening analyses for harsh environments. Own designs from concept through verification and validation while collaborating with electrical engineers and PCB designers. Apply CAD, eCAD, harness design, FEA, thermal analysis, and lifecycle testing methods to ensure avionics performance and compliance.

Design and develop electric motors and electromechanical components for next-generation aircraft. Integrate motor designs with aircraft structures, engines, power electronics, and thermal systems; create CAD models and drawings; support manufacturing documentation; and conduct prototyping, qualification, dyno, aircraft, noise, vibration, and troubleshooting tests.

Designs and optimizes low-observable aircraft features, including RCS shaping, edge treatments, radar-absorbing materials, and subsystem integration. Conducts electromagnetic signature modeling, supports RCS testing and validation, translates threats into survivability requirements, and collaborates across propulsion, avionics, structures, materials, manufacturing, and AI teams. The role also contributes to threat modeling, customer assessments, and program milestone decisions for autonomous aircraft.

Build and maintain large-scale, real-time data platforms for Department of Defense customers. Responsibilities include architecting cluster and application lifecycles, deploying Kubernetes and Docker solutions in cloud and on-premises environments, creating CI/CD pipelines, implementing GitOps, and supporting monitoring, logging, infrastructure-as-code, and streaming technologies. The role requires collaboration with clients and technical teams to operate highly available, data-intensive platforms.

Leads the architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of DevOps, CI/CD, build, release, and developer productivity platforms for next-generation infotainment systems. Designs scalable embedded Linux build pipelines, automates releases, improves observability, builds self-service tooling, and drives cross-functional initiatives. The role mentors engineers, influences technical direction, and advances software delivery reliability and developer velocity across multiple vehicle programs.

Design and build software for global network automation, orchestration, provisioning, device lifecycle management, telemetry, validation, and automated remediation. Integrate DPUs, SmartNICs, and programmable network infrastructure into scalable cloud systems. Establish architecture and technical direction, write RFCs and design proposals, lead complex initiatives from concept through operation, mentor engineers, and collaborate across network, infrastructure, hardware, compute, storage, and security teams.

Designs and delivers RF and microwave modules for airborne and ground systems, including circuit design, PCB layout, simulation, laboratory verification, qualification, and production release. Responsibilities include RF performance analysis, hardware debugging, environmental and electromagnetic qualification, test strategy development, manufacturing transition, and cross-functional integration. The role requires hands-on ownership of RF hardware and mentorship of other engineers.

Lead the design, development, and operation of integrations and API products. Establish standards for API contracts, authentication, authorization, versioning, reliability, observability, documentation, and developer experience. Drive cross-team system architecture, production readiness, scalability, security, and resilience while mentoring engineers and aligning technical decisions with product and business goals.