Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and operate scalable backend services, collaborate across teams, and ensure high system availability.

Lead design and implementation of multi-regional data platform and stream-processing architecture. Drive event-driven adoption, mentor engineers, ensure scalability, reliability, security, compliance, and participate in on-call operations.

The Senior Engineer 2 will lead performance optimizations in AI Inference, focusing on architectural decisions, benchmarking, and complex GPU optimizations to enhance throughput and reduce latency for large models.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement the backend architecture for Marimo's molab, focusing on high availability, low latency, and system stability, while utilizing CoreWeave's infrastructure.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Inference team, you'll lead architecture and optimization for Kubernetes-native AI workloads, enhancing performance and reliability across services.

Lead the technical evolution of the Incentive Offers platform, architect scalable services, develop identity resolution systems, mentor engineers, and solve complex systems challenges.

Lead technical direction, design, build, and operate Snap's large-scale service and compute infrastructure. Drive platform roadmaps, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and developer experience. Act as hands-on staff tech lead across cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape infrastructure for an AI-first future.

Take end-to-end ownership of a Kubernetes-based, multi-region data platform: architect for high availability and low latency, scale infrastructure, optimize CI/CD, implement observability and IaC, enforce cloud-native security, lead incident response, and ensure production readiness and capacity planning.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture and implementation of AI-powered developer tools and workflows in a cloud environment. Responsibilities include mentoring, driving innovation, managing project delivery, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Lead technical direction and architecture for US and Canada regional customer experiences. Drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, elevate reliability/observability/security, and embed AI-native practices. Stay hands-on in TypeScript, React/React Native, Java/Kotlin, and Go while partnering with product, design, and analytics to shape roadmaps.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for CoreWeave's orchestration platform (SUNK). Own critical orchestration components, drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and hyperscale scaling. Mentor senior engineers, establish reliability and observability best practices, and ensure workloads run reliably and efficiently for large GPU ML training and inference clusters.

Lead architecture and evolution of billing, payments, and invoicing systems. Design resilient payment processing, monitoring, reconciliation, and integrations while partnering with finance and operations to ensure financial correctness, compliance, and scalability.

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.

The Staff Software Engineer leads the Developer Experience team, driving technical strategies and addressing complex developer productivity challenges at CoreWeave, focusing on building robust developer platforms and enhancing engineering processes.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture and design for AI workload orchestration on Kubernetes, mentoring engineers and driving technical initiatives across teams.

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.

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.

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.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.