# Staff Software Engineer > Raydar · San Francisco, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-01 **Salary:** USD 217,000–410,000 **Workplace:** hybrid ## Description 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 ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/8C220D5E86/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)