Staff Software Engineer

OpenMined

Posted 2mo ago

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Own the NSAI squad technical architecture end to end
Drive production readiness through deployment monitoring, error handling, graceful degradation, and operational runbooks
Be a force multiplier by establishing, demonstrating, and mentoring the team to establish norms around engineering best practices
Collaborate on core technology stack strategy through architectural review
Partner with product lead to develop and execute on realistic roadmaps
Own the delivery of engineering’s quarterly goals
Own team output, delivery, and success
Champion high-quality software delivery through the establishment of robust tools, processes, & methodologies
Create technical documentation and processes that support high velocity and knowledge transfer
Manage a team of 2-4 engineers as a people leader

8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of personally building, shipping, and operating production systems at meaningful scale
Strong Python proficiency
FastAPI
async patterns
Docker orchestration
Vue 3 / TypeScript
Rust / Tauri
cross-platform desktop app experience
Networking/P2P application experience
Distributed systems and API design experience
design & evolution of interfaces consumed by multiple independent teams
Practical RAG and information retrieval experience
vector databases
retrieval pipelines
embedding strategies
aggregation
Demonstration of technical leadership through the introduction of engineering quality practices to one or more teams
Comfort with ambiguity and resource constraints
Async-fluent with strong written communication
capacity to build high-trust working relationships across 6hr+ time zone spread
Cross-functional collaboration & communication to facilitate and improve understanding/context sharing between engineers and non-engineering/non-technical stakeholders
Located within ET +/- 1 to enable rapid team-oriented communication, learning, and feedback cycles
facilitate engagement with remainder of OpenMined engineering team, globally

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