Staff Software Engineer
Pax8, Inc.2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$225k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own, build, operate, and set the technical direction for a complex system with organization-wide impact.
- Make consequential decisions about what to build, scale, or discontinue on ambiguous problems and own the outcomes.
- Apply systems thinking across ownership boundaries to optimize end-to-end results.
- Scope and implement high-leverage solutions while operating the owned domain directly.
- Instrument systems for adoption and usage and evaluate delivered value using data-backed standards.
- Mentor engineers toward owning highly complex systems.
- Identify and mitigate engineering, security, data, and AI-specific risks before production release.
- Drive new techniques from discovery, prototyping, and proof of concept through hardened production.
- Build and own evaluation and validation infrastructure for AI-assisted or AI-native systems.
- Document systems so other teams can consume them without ongoing coordination meetings.
Requirements
- Track record of being the de facto owner of a problem space on which much of an organization depends.
- Experience building and operating technically deep systems and defining their technical strategy.
- Experience mentoring Software Engineers toward ownership of highly complex systems.
- Experience taking techniques from papers or external sources through prototype, proof of concept, and safety-reviewed production rollout.
- Ability to make high-stakes decisions with incomplete data and communicate technical direction to engineering and product audiences.
- Understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, responsible AI, data classification, privacy, and advanced prompting.
- Ability to build and own eval and validation infrastructure for AI-assisted or AI-native systems.
- Ability to assess agent-produced code and track evolving AI techniques and vulnerability classes.
- Valid right to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement in the US.
- Competitive compensation package and annual bonus opportunity.
- Employee stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Flexible paid time off, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
- Paid volunteer time, wellness initiatives, and employee assistance programs.
- Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Continuous learning, professional development resources, AI-powered learning tools, and an internal development hub.
- Pre-employment identity, reference, qualification, and other applicable background checks are required.
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About Pax8, Inc.
Pax8 operates a cloud marketplace used by managed service providers and IT resellers to buy, provision, and bill SaaS and IaaS solutions, including Microsoft 365, security, backup, and infrastructure. It earns revenue as a distribution platform, offering automation and integrations for deployment and subscription management; founded in 2012 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, it serves SMBs through a global network of MSP partners.