Staff Software Engineer
BigCommerce4 days 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 the long-term technical roadmap.
- Integrate machine learning and GenAI technologies into current and future products.
- Evaluate emerging AI infrastructure and development practices and advocate for valuable adoption.
- Build, maintain, test, and review high-performance, reliable, secure, and maintainable software.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and system reliability issues.
- Build tools and frameworks that enable faster and safer delivery by other engineers.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across global teams.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers at all levels.
- Promote knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, mentorship, and engineering excellence.
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.
- Demonstrated leadership in technical direction and architecture.
- 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, fault tolerance, and other distributed systems concepts.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP and microservices architecture.
- Solid experience with SQL, in-memory storage, and other data storage solutions.
- Experience operating and monitoring production services, including observability tooling.
- Strong grasp of software design principles, testing strategies, and modern development practices.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, communication, and technical decision-making skills.
- Proven track record of technical leadership and mentorship.
- 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
- Austin- or Atlanta-area employees follow a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office.
- The role may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits according to local policies.
- The employer provides an inclusive and accessible hiring experience and supports accommodations during recruitment.
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