Staff Software Engineer (YC experience)

Seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead high-impact technical initiatives, design scalable systems, and shape engineering architecture. The role involves leading design and implementation of production-grade systems, architecting services using TypeScript, Python, Go, owning challenging projects, driving architectural decisions, improving system performance, collaborating with teams, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring senior engineers.

7+ years professional software engineering experience, strong experience with TypeScript, Python, Go, proven experience designing and operating production systems at scale, strong distributed systems and system design knowledge, experience leading technical projects across multiple teams, excellent problem-solving and communication skills, strong ownership, willingness to work on-site in San Francisco. Preferred: cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes, high-scale SaaS/platform systems, distributed/