Staff Software Engineer
- Salary
- $217,000 - $410,000 per year
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 23 October 2026.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams.
What you'll do
- Guide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work.
- Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization.
- Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective.
- Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities.
- Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope and responsibility.
- Hands-on history running high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production.
- Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies should have worked at least once in a startup.
- Strong system design skills for data-intensive and distributed architectures.
- Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models.
- Working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails.
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants in daily development.
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to be in the office 3 days per week.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 217,000 to 410,000 per year
- Equity
- Performance bonus
- Flexible hybrid work
- Professional development support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
- Full-time
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Ruby · Ruby on Rails
Rare in Raydar's other 299 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
Compared with Raydar's other open jobs.
Other openings for this role
3 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 23 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 23 October 2026 – open
- 23 October 2026 – open
- 23 October 2026 – open (this posting)
Salary context
166 other open postings titled Staff Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 197,000 to USD 250,000 a year.
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