Juniper Square
Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI)
Americas (USA or Canada) · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringRESTKafkaLLMsLLMOpsIncident ResponseDesign SystemsSalesAccountingERPLoad Testing
About the role
- We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of the core systems that power Juniper Square - the distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and developer platform on which every product, workflow, and AI capability is built.
- You will define the vision, architecture, operating model, and execution roadmap required to evolve from team-by-team infrastructure decisions to a cohesive, paved-road platform that enables every engineering team to ship reliable, secure, and performant software at speed.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the end-to-end systems architecture strategy across services, infrastructure, and developer platform
- Designing frameworks and design patterns that accelerate the work of the rest of engineering org
- Design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems spanning synchronous APIs, asynchronous workflows, and event-driven architectures
- Establish standards for service design, API contracts, multi-tenancy, and inter-service communication
- Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making for high-stakes, cross-cutting initiatives
- Drive adoption of modern architectures (event-driven systems, platform engineering, infrastructure as code)
- Design and prototype critical platform and infrastructure components
- Review service designs, infrastructure changes, and performance-critical code paths
- Optimize workloads for latency, throughput, concurrency, and cost
- Design and architect a scalable cloud platform supporting compute, networking, storage, service orchestration, and deployment across all product lines
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 15+ years in distributed systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
- Proven experience architecting large-scale, high-availability multi-tenant distributed systems in production
- Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, containers, service mesh, serverless)
- Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, consensus, partitioning, idempotency, backpressure, and failure modes
- Advanced proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and modern CI/CD
- Experience designing event-driven and streaming architectures (Kafka or similar)
- Strong understanding of observability practices and SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets, incident management)
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP at production scale
Nice to have
- Background in private markets, fund accounting, or fintech systems with complex financial domain models
- Background in high-growth SaaS, fintech, or other regulated, data-sensitive environments
- Experience with large-scale cloud cost optimization
- Experience scaling relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) under high concurrency
- Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
Skills
- Mentor senior engineers across platform, infrastructure, and product teams
- Influence roadmaps using platform, reliability, and cost considerations
- Act as the executive technical authority for systems architecture and production engineering
- Evangelize AI adoption, including AI-assisted engineering and operations
- Help promote a culture of operational excellence and outcome-driven innovation
- Become a role model for engineering excellence for the rest of the org
Compensation
- Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits.
- The U.S. base salary range for this role is $265,000 USD.
- Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable.
- Annual professional development stipend
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
- Life insurance
- Mental wellness coverage
- Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays
- Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
- Retirement saving plans
- Annual professional development stipend
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