Staff Software Engineer
BigCommerce1 day ago
Base Salary
$186k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems.
- Drive cross-domain architectural discussions and contribute to long-term technical roadmaps.
- Integrate machine learning models and GenAI solutions into current and future products.
- Evaluate emerging AI infrastructure and development practices.
- Build secure, maintainable software and tools that improve engineering delivery speed and safety.
- Lead code reviews and address performance, scalability, and reliability challenges.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across global teams.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers at all levels.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Expertise in backend development with two or more server-side languages such as PHP, Go, Scala, Java, Python, or Ruby.
- Proven experience architecting, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of consensus, consistency, and fault tolerance in distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP and microservices architecture.
- Experience with SQL, in-memory storage, and other data storage solutions.
- Experience operating and monitoring production services and familiarity with observability tools such as Sentry, Kibana, or Datadog.
- Understanding of software design principles, testing strategies, and modern development practices.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, communication, technical leadership, and mentorship skills.
- Preferred experience building product solutions with LLMs and GenAI technologies.
- Preferred familiarity with vector databases, model orchestration tools, inference frameworks, and cloud-native ML workflows.
- Preferred experience with SaaS or multi-tenant platforms operating at significant scale.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement.
- Optional collaborative workspaces in Austin, Atlanta, and London for team gatherings, workshops, and in-person collaboration.
- Potential eligibility for variable compensation, equity, and benefits according to local policies.
- Accessible and inclusive hiring experience with accommodations available upon request.
About BigCommerce
BigCommerce, powered by Commerce (Nasdaq: CMRC), is the flexible enterprise ecommerce platform built for growth without compromise. Our open architecture makes it easy for brands and B2B sellers to scale, adapt, and connect to the tools that solve their unique business challenges — without being locked into rigid systems. Learn more at bigcommerce.com If you are interested in exploring career opportunities with us, we invite you to follow the Commerce LinkedIn Jobs page for the latest updates on open positions. #BigCommerce #PoweredByCommerce