Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Build and lead the development productivity platform supporting SaaS, mobile, and embedded products. Responsibilities include creating automated CI/CD and release pipelines, improving developer environments and self-service tooling, building reliable infrastructure and testing systems, optimizing platform performance, and establishing engineering standards. The role also includes defining team direction, mentoring engineers, and driving adoption through collaboration, demos, and technical sessions.

Lead technical strategy and hands-on development for Snap’s storage, caching, identity, and service infrastructure. Design and operate highly available distributed systems across AWS and GCP, drive multi-quarter initiatives, improve reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, observability, and developer experience, and influence architecture across infrastructure and product teams. Mentor engineers, resolve complex technical challenges, and shape responsible AI applications for platform quality and engineering productivity.

Architect and deliver scalable, secure systems across teams; solve complex cross-team problems; lead large technical initiatives; evaluate emerging technologies; mentor engineers; align technical direction with product and business outcomes while balancing performance, maintainability, and cost.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and operation of Snap’s omnichannel notification platform. Design scalable, highly available backend services, shared APIs, data models, orchestration, ranking, targeting, experimentation, and measurement systems. Drive cross-functional initiatives, improve reliability and observability, respond to incidents, develop technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across teams.

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.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, high-availability software services. Owns complex, multi-team initiatives, makes autonomous technical decisions, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, establishes standards, and advocates for quality. The role develops mission-critical systems supporting millions of endpoints and requires deep Java expertise, scalable system design, API development, relational databases, and strong testing practices.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, resilient distributed systems. Act as technical authority across teams, mentor engineers, drive architecture and CI/CD best practices, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and enhance observability while writing production-grade Java.

Lead the developer experience roadmap and own multi-language SDKs and the code-generation pipeline. Design CI, release automation, observability, and tooling (CLI, starter repos). Improve cross-language parity, docs, and developer onboarding; remove systemic friction and represent DX to Product, Engineering, and Partnerships.

Serve as the frontline technical expert for Temporal’s developer community. Help customers deploy, scale, troubleshoot, and optimize Temporal in cloud-native environments. Responsibilities include resolving distributed-systems and infrastructure issues, developing observability and automation solutions, improving networking and reliability, and creating infrastructure best practices and diagnostic tools. The role requires direct engagement with developers, engineering teams, and product teams while influencing platform improvements and enhancing developer experience.

Full‑stack staff engineer to ship web products end-to-end, iterate on and expand a suite of sales/CRM-focused tools, define engineering culture and best practices, and hire/mentor future engineers. Must move fast in a small team, engage with users, and solve new problems creatively.

Develop and enhance payment products and transaction systems using Java and Kotlin. Design and build microservice components, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend architectural improvements. Mentor less-experienced engineers on software practices and coding standards. The role focuses on highly available, distributed, high-concurrency risk and payment platforms, including fraud detection and risk decisioning infrastructure.

Design and develop electro-mechanical or hydro-mechanical landing gear for autonomous UAVs. Own full design cycle from concept and CAD to analysis, tolerance stack-ups, materials selection, prototyping, FEA, testing, and production release. Collaborate with avionics, hydraulics, structures and electrical teams; support integration, ground and flight testing.

Design, build, and execute mechanical and structural test plans, develop fixtures and hydraulic test systems, integrate and calibrate sensors, automate data collection and analysis with Python, perform FEA, produce technical reports, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate aircraft hardware.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Own and modernize Domino's Tempest scale-testing platform; build repeatable automated validation, sizing guidance, and cloud-scale test automation; partner with platform teams to enable multi-cloud scale testing and improve test reliability and reporting.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Remitly, you will leverage AI agents to build applications, translate customer needs, and evaluate outputs for quality and security, focusing on delivery speed and robustness.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.