Vizient

Staff Engineer

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2 months ago
Irving, TX, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$157k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, architecture, and development of scalable, reliable, secure, and high-performance software systems.
  • Establish engineering standards, architectural guidelines, development processes, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
  • Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance, training, workshops, peer programming, and feedback.
  • Act as the escalation point for complex technical challenges, including performance analysis, debugging, telemetry review, and root cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, product, architecture, engineering leadership, and other stakeholders on technical strategy and business alignment.
  • Define technical roadmaps, manage cross-team dependencies, assess project risks, and balance short-term delivery with long-term goals.
  • Drive responsible adoption of automation, machine learning models, and AI-powered tools for engineering and business-process optimization.
  • Improve system stability, observability, security, resilience, capacity, disaster recovery, and incident response.
  • Identify performance bottlenecks through profiling, metrics monitoring, and database query refinement.
  • Introduce infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native solutions to streamline deployments and improve operational agility.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a directly related field.
  • At least 10 years of experience in software development.
  • At least 5 years of experience establishing technical standards, defining architectural guidelines, and embedding engineering best practices.
  • At least 5 years of experience mentoring engineers across multiple technical domains, including system architecture, performance optimization, and site reliability.
  • At least 3 years of experience in technical leadership roles driving cross-functional initiatives and technical direction without formal authority.
  • Experience may be gained concurrently.

Benefits

  • Full-time hybrid position in Irving, Texas, with three days in the office and two days remote.
  • Must reside within commuting distance of the employer’s Irving, Texas office.
  • Comprehensive benefits plan.
  • Incentive eligible.

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5,001-10,000 employees
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