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Staff Engineer

LocationWarsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Work modeon-site

Typefull-time

DepartmentDev

Company size1+ people

First seen3d ago

Last seen1d ago

About the role: In this role, you will:

Responsibilities

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Own parts of our core backend infrastructure, which is a complex, real-time distributed system written in Python and Rust

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Own large, complex initiatives end-to-end, including projects with incomplete or evolving requirements, and deliver them with minimal guidance

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Take ownership of reducing our incident rate

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Solve stability issues and highly complex production issues

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Own the technical responsibilities related to our SOC 2 process, including managing the person responsible for its day-to-day execution

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Constantly improve our development velocity while maintaining a very high reliability standard

Requirements

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Previously a Staff or Principal Engineer at a startup company

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10+ years of experience in Python development

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Previous leadership experience, including leading teams and driving large, ambiguously defined projects from concept through delivery

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Strong Python Asyncio experience

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Strong software design skills

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Excellent communicator in writing and orally

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Deep understanding of Networking Protocols, Operating Systems

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Deep knowledge of Python Profiling

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Experience in delivering and troubleshooting a production-grade cloud-based distributed system

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Kubernetes and Helm experience

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Experience with different observability stacks

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Strong LLM prompting skills, but also being able to work without them

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Experience with gRPC and its troubleshooting

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BSc in Software Development or equivalent industry experience

Bonus:

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Previous experience owning technical responsibilities related to SOC 2 compliance

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An understanding of one of the following: WebRTC, STUN/TURN, SIP, RTP, HLS, RTMP

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Experience with a strongly typed language (Rust, C++, Go, Swift, Java, etc)

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Experience in building and troubleshooting a real-time low-level system (e.g. kernel, drivers, RTOS)

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Audio programming experience

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Being a contributor or maintainer of an open-source package

Qualities We’re Looking For

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Fast - you know you’re a 10X engineer, not just yet another senior engineer

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Resilience – being able to balance planned work with real-time issues in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment

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Strong communication skills – in both written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce crisp and clear documentation

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Problem solver

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Extremely Strong ownership and independence

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Ability to translate incomplete requirements into an actual product

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A leader - able to lead projects or teams independently and with minimal guidance

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