Staff Engineer
First American Financial Corporation1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-team and cross-product initiatives from design through production adoption.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, debug, and operate critical production software.
- Define architectural principles, engineering guardrails, standards, and release-readiness practices.
- Build shared frameworks, libraries, services, tooling, reusable AI workflows, evaluations, validation mechanisms, and safety guardrails.
- Design APIs, event-driven systems, distributed workflows, integrations, data models, and technical implementation plans.
- Improve reliability, scalability, performance, security, observability, and operational supportability.
- Lead major cross-product incident response and preventive actions.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, influence technical decisions, and contribute to technical hiring.
Requirements
- Demonstrated Staff Engineer-level impact across multiple teams, products, or domains.
- Experience leading complex initiatives through production delivery and adoption.
- Strong hands-on full-stack engineering skills and willingness to contribute directly to implementation.
- Deep experience with AWS and cloud-native, scalable, secure, and observable architectures.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, React, Next.js, frontend architecture, and microservices.
- Strong understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, including consistency, idempotency, retries, concurrency, and failure recovery.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows.
- Ability to design AI-agent context and constraints, define success criteria, automate evaluation, and manage trust boundaries, failure modes, data sensitivity, and human-review requirements.
- Strong knowledge of application security, IAM, threat modeling, secure development, and data protection.
- Strong architectural judgment, communication skills, and ability to mentor senior engineers and influence technical decisions without formal authority.
- Preferred experience includes internal AI agents, evaluation systems, context frameworks, AI safety guardrails, engineering standards, shared platforms, automation, paved-road solutions, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated quality gates, progressive delivery, Datadog, CloudWatch, distributed tracing, service-level objectives, incident reviews, complex-system modernization, B2B SaaS, and enterprise software platforms.
Benefits
- The position is based within First American's India Global Capability Center.
- First American (India) describes an inclusive workplace and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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About First American Financial Corporation
First American Financial Corporation provides title insurance, closing/settlement services, and real-estate risk and property data products to lenders, agents, homebuyers/sellers, and commercial property firms. It also offers valuation services, mortgage subservicing, and home warranties, monetizing through insurance premiums and fee-based transactions and data licensing. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Santa Ana, California, First American is a Fortune 500 public company trading on the NYSE under the ticker FAF.