Senior Staff Software Engineer
Bluestaq US External2 months ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering efforts spanning multiple teams or product areas, including re-architectures, platform capabilities, migrations, integrations, and reliability or security programs.
- Design and drive large-scale architectures across platform components, shared libraries, data, frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
- Drive organization-wide improvements in testing, observability, CI/CD pipelines, coding standards, security posture, developer experience, and technical simplification.
- Own cross-team technical outcomes, align engineering groups around shared designs and goals, and identify systemic technical risks before they become urgent.
- Serve as a technical partner to program leadership, product management, and cross-functional leads in roadmap and investment decisions.
- Coach Staff and Senior engineers and help develop broader technical leaders.
- Represent engineering in high-level architectural and organizational discussions.
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 6+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master's degree plus 8+ years; or a bachelor's degree plus 10+ years; or an associate degree plus 12+ years; or a high school diploma/GED plus 14+ years.
- Exceptional proficiency across multiple software engineering domains, including distributed systems, API design, data architecture, frontend or backend development, and platform engineering.
- Demonstrated success leading multi-team technical initiatives from concept through production at organizational scale with measurable impact on reliability, performance, or engineering velocity.
- Deep expertise in large-scale system design, platform architecture, and cross-cutting technical strategy across multiple stacks and deployment environments.
- Strong experience driving improvements in testing, observability, CI/CD, security, shared infrastructure, and technical risk reduction across teams and codebases.
- Demonstrated ability to coach Staff-level engineers and influence teams across reporting boundaries without formal authority.
- Preferred experience includes shared platforms, internal developer tooling, large-scale migrations, performance engineering, reliability initiatives, technical debt reduction, engineering strategy, hiring, and external technical leadership.
- Familiarity with DoD, intelligence community, or federal software delivery and security standards, including RMF, NIST 800-53, or STIG compliance, is preferred.
- An active TS/SCI clearance may be required.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available and is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
- Eligible candidates may be sponsored through the TS/SCI clearance process based on program needs.
- Applications are accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.
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About Bluestaq US External
Bluestaq builds data integration and management platforms that break down silos and deliver time-critical information across defense, government, and commercial environments. Its software and secure infrastructure support space domain awareness and satellite command-and-control workflows, including work with U.S. Space Force programs. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, it operates globally with teams in London, Brisbane, and Canberra, and is privately held.