Senior Staff Software Engineer, Recognition Platform

1 day ago

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$232k - $268k/yr

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end architecture for edge ingestion, identity resolution, decisioning, notification, and operator-facing systems.
Drive cross-functional alignment across application engineering, computer vision and machine learning, data, security, platform teams, and external partners.
Evolve high-volume edge-to-cloud streaming pipelines for scalability, tail latency, intermittent connectivity, backpressure, and out-of-order events.
Design real-time rules and decisioning systems for alerting, routing, eligibility, consent, frequency capping, and next-best actions.
Establish thresholds, replay harnesses, and quantitative approaches for balancing deterministic logic with probabilistic signals.
Architect privacy, identity, and consent models for biometric-regulated environments.
Define SLOs, alerting, runbooks, soak testing, feature-flagged rollouts, and other production-quality practices.
Provide technical leadership through RFCs, design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

12+ years of experience building and operating distributed, data-intensive production systems, including experience as a multi-service platform technical owner.
Proven cross-functional technical leadership and experience aligning independent engineering teams around shared architecture.
Expert proficiency in a JVM language such as Scala or Java, with fluency in event-driven and service-oriented design, gRPC/protobuf, streaming, and relational data modeling.
Hands-on experience designing high-throughput ingestion pipelines and understanding delivery semantics, idempotency, ordering, backpressure, and tail latency.
Experience building rules, eligibility, or decisioning systems combining deterministic logic with probabilistic or model-driven signals.
Strong systems judgment integrating third-party APIs, SDKs, and vendor constraints.
Excellent written technical communication and experience writing decisive RFCs.
Ability to navigate physical-world deployment constraints, hardware conditions, and operational complexity.
Deep understanding of observability, automated testing, progressive delivery, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot.
Preferred experience includes computer vision, biometric matching, sensor fusion, privacy-regulated domains, consent management, IoT, edge computing, fleet-scale telemetry, MQTT-class transports, identity resolution, customer data platforms, hospitality or retail systems, and principal-adjacent technical leadership scope.

Office-first work arrangement requiring at least four days per week on-site.
Benefits may include healthcare, a 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock options, bonus plans, and other total compensation benefits.