Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer

2 hours ago

Westminster, CO, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$128k - $187k/yr

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical authority for a product or major product evolution.
Define system architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
Partner with Product Management to validate customer needs and align planned capabilities with customer problems.
Lead architecture reviews, trade studies, and major technical decisions.
Drive system decomposition, interface definition, integration planning, and release sequencing.
Manage architectural, integration, schedule, and operational risks across the product lifecycle.
Resolve cross-team technical conflicts and establish engineering practices that improve quality and delivery.
Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leadership across the organization.
Guide products through concept, integration, validation, operational readiness, and customer deployment.
Apply AI-assisted approaches to accelerate architecture and systems analysis and improve requirements validation and technical decision-making.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Significant experience designing and delivering complex software-intensive systems.
Experience serving as a technical lead across multiple engineering teams.
Strong understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
Experience leading architecture reviews and technical trade studies.
Experience managing system integration and cross-team technical dependencies.
Demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical issues spanning multiple organizations.
Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, customers, and senior leadership.
Preferred experience includes cloud-native platforms and Kubernetes, event-driven and distributed architectures, AI-assisted software development workflows, systems-of-systems engineering, high-availability or mission-critical software, platform engineering, operational readiness and production deployment, and model-based or digital systems engineering.
Applicants must be a U.S. Person as defined by the posting: a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
The position is incentive eligible, with the target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
The role is subject to U.S. export control requirements and requires U.S. Person status.
The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.

1,001-5,000 employees