Why this role
Our Data Cloud is a platform most people never see, but most businesses have indirectly depended on: billions of records, tens of millions of daily updates, and APIs that serve over 1,000 transactions per second - every transaction auditable, every record defensible. It's what makes our products trustworthy.
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own a technical domain that cuts across several teams inside Data Cloud - for example, our ingestion and transformation platform, our API tier, or our metadata and lineage layer. You'll set direction, raise the engineering bar, and remain hands‑on enough that Seniors genuinely want your code review.
This is not a management role. It's the technical‑leadership rung on our IC ladder, with the scope and compensation to match.
You’ll be the engineer who knows how a slice of Data Cloud works end‑to‑end – and where it’s going next.
Architecture and strategy: Drive multi‑quarter technical roadmaps: what we build, what we retire, and what we stop doing. Author the RFCs that matter.
Cross‑team decisions: Partner with two or three engineering teams, Product, and Data Science to make the right technical trade‑offs – especially the ones no single team can make alone.
Quality of the whole: Reliability, performance, cost and security for your domain. When an incident touches your area you’re part of the postmortem.
Engineering standards: Set the bar for design reviews, API contracts, testing and operability – and teach it, so it sticks.
Hands‑on work: We expect you to still ship code – typically the hard bits, the de‑risking prototypes, and the reference implementations others build on.
Mentorship at scale: Grow Seniors into the next Staff engineers. Coach Engineering Managers on technical direction. Be generous with your time.
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