Member of Technical Staff (YC experience)
- Salary
- $200,000 - $350,000
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Location: United States — Remote
Compensation: $200,000–$350,000 USD
Start Date: ASAP
Languages: Fluent English required
Type: Full-time
About the Opportunity
Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a rapidly scaling technology company building sophisticated infrastructure and software systems.
We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff with experience in YC or Venture backed start ups to lead high-impact technical initiatives and solve complex engineering problems spanning multiple systems and teams.
What You'll Do
- Lead architecture and implementation of critical platform capabilities.
- Own complex technical initiatives from conception through production.
- Design scalable distributed systems and services.
- Identify and resolve architectural, reliability, and performance bottlenecks.
- Establish engineering patterns and technical standards.
- Collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Influence long-term platform architecture and technology decisions.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems and system architecture.
- Deep proficiency in at least one major programming language.
- Experience operating systems at meaningful scale.
- Strong technical leadership and communication skills.
- Ability to influence across teams without direct authority.
Nice to Have
- AI/ML infrastructure.
- Kubernetes, cloud, GPUs, or distributed compute.
- Experience at a fast-growing technology company.
- Experience designing highly available platforms.
Why Join?
Our client is building highly scalable technology that sits at the core of critical business operations, offering engineers the opportunity to work on complex systems, large-scale integrations, and real-world technical challenges.
You'll join a collaborative, fast-moving environment where ownership is encouraged, decisions are made quickly, and engineers have meaningful influence on architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.
This role offers the opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems, work with modern technologies, and grow alongside an ambitious team building for scale.
Full benefit package and competitive compensation.
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What this role asks for
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The team: NAM HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 26 open in NAM. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Kubernetes (15 of 26), Python (12 of 26), TypeScript (12 of 26), Machine Learning (11 of 26), Golang (10 of 26), LLM (7 of 26), Generative AI (6 of 26)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Forward Deployed Engineer (YC experience) posted Sep 25
- Lead Software Engineer (YC Experience) posted Aug 14
- Principal Software Engineer (YC Experience) posted Aug 14
- Backend Software Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Staff Software Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Lead Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Principal Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Staff Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Founding AI Lead Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Principal Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff AI Engineer posted Aug 14
- Lead Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Principal Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Lead Member of Technical Staff posted Aug 14
- Senior Member of Technical Staff posted Aug 14
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff Forward Deployed Engineer posted Aug 14
- Principal Fullstack Engineer (AI) - Boston posted Aug 3
- Senior UI/Frontend Engineer (AI) posted Jul 6
- Principal ML Ops Engineer posted Apr 22
- CUDA Kernel Engineer (Remote US) posted Apr 22
- Senior Engineer (Multicloud) posted Apr 7
- Principal AI/ML Engineer posted Mar 3
From the team and dates on Pragmatike's own job board.
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