Top Staff Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Design, build, and operate multi-region, multi-cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Own cloud-to-cloud and customer connectivity, troubleshoot latency/packet-loss via pcap and path analysis, set technical direction for network expansion, improve cross-region connectivity, and identify network cost and efficiency improvements while participating in incident response and on-call rotation.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Build Vetcove’s AI-native developer experience, including coding-agent workflows, CI/CD, testing, deployments, automations, developer infrastructure, and self-service tools. Improve engineering productivity by identifying bottlenecks, reducing manual work, introducing effective tools, and establishing reliable permissions, sandboxing, and observability. Partner with engineering leadership and teams across the company while working hands-on across Python/Django, React/TypeScript, and supporting infrastructure.

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, developer tooling, observability, security defaults, backup recovery, and incident response. Build reliable automation and self-service workflows, establish SLOs and actionable alerting, support engineers across environments, lead platform initiatives, improve security and reliability practices, and mentor engineers serving millions of users.

Leads architecture and development of scalable healthcare applications and distributed systems. Provides technical leadership and mentorship, collaborates with Product and Design, manages software delivery, improves testing and CI/CD, resolves complex technical issues, and oversees cloud infrastructure, databases, deployment pipelines, and production monitoring. Requires hands-on full-stack engineering expertise, cloud and containerization experience, and participation in periodic on-call escalation coverage.

Architect target-state applications and modernize legacy banking systems into microservice and event-driven platforms. Define technical vision, architecture, API standards, and design practices while ensuring scalability, performance, security, and operability. Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, support cross-divisional initiatives, lead architectural reviews, and promote engineering excellence across technology and product teams.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

Lead technical architecture and large, ambiguous projects for Braze’s Messaging Experience division. Build and evolve scalable backend systems, real-time and batch processing infrastructure, orchestration frameworks, and complex web interfaces using Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React. Mentor engineers, improve reliability and observability, reduce technical debt, and deliver foundational platforms and code-generation tooling supporting messaging journeys across multiple teams.

Own and scale Pallet’s infrastructure supporting millions of AI agent runs. Responsibilities include improving capacity, performance, reliability, cloud and on-prem portability, enterprise integrations, observability, incident response, developer productivity, CI, deployments, and production debugging. The role sets technical direction, establishes SLOs, plans capacity, identifies bottlenecks, and leads reliability improvements.

Lead enterprise cloud infrastructure transformation, including modernization to microservices and event-driven platforms. Define technical vision, architecture standards, and platform strategy; ensure scalability, performance, security, and operability. Drive cloud, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, governance, AI, and automation adoption. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, mentor engineers, influence enterprise standards, and support large-scale production cloud environments.

Staff Engineer leading technical vision, architecture, modernization, and engineering excellence for Capital One’s cloud-based enterprise data protection platform. Responsibilities include designing scalable distributed systems, migrating monoliths to microservices and event-driven architectures, establishing API and coding standards, mentoring engineers, driving cross-domain initiatives, and providing hands-on technical leadership across security, data, and cloud technologies.

Architect and build the Global Payment Network’s real-time and batch data infrastructure, including event-driven pipelines, canonical data models, metadata and catalog systems, streaming, storage, and low-latency services. Establish technical standards for scalable distributed systems, partner with fraud, analytics, modeling, product, and risk teams, and mentor engineers as a senior individual contributor without direct reports.

Staff backend infrastructure engineer responsible for platform reliability, performance, regional resilience, failover, migrations, data pipelines, observability, incident response, and shared engineering tooling. The role leads cross-team technical direction, mentors engineers, and partners with security and compliance in a regulated financial services environment. Key technologies include Java, MongoDB, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, Datadog, and cloud infrastructure.

Build and scale full-stack products for child care businesses, agencies, and government organizations. Responsibilities include developing React and TypeScript frontend features, designing Node.js and Express backend APIs, operating cloud systems, improving performance and reliability, managing technical debt, conducting code reviews, collaborating cross-functionally, and engaging directly with customers. The role owns complex projects end to end and emphasizes rapid delivery, product impact, security, maintainability, and modern AI coding tools.

Owns RPM growth engineering, shipping enrollment, outreach, engagement, and provider features from concept to production. Shapes scalable architecture, contributes to the Aria AI coach, manages bugs and vulnerabilities, and investigates complex patient support issues. Requires strong full-stack TypeScript skills, product judgment, technical leadership, startup experience, and comfort working across frontend, backend, data, AI, and regulated healthcare systems.

Design, implement, operate, and scale critical backend services, including identity, social graph, and persistence systems. Collaborate across teams to deliver product solutions, ensure availability and operational excellence, test and debug code, and participate in incident resolution. The role requires technical leadership, distributed-systems expertise, and effective use of AI development tools while maintaining security, performance, and production-quality standards.

Lead technical strategy and execution for Affirm’s account management team, building secure, scalable fullstack systems and customer account security experiences. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; establish quality, monitoring, testing, and operational standards; support availability and on-call practices; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers.

The FX Quantitative Developer is responsible for developing pricing libraries, supporting FX product frameworks, and collaborating with clients to enhance risk and valuation models.

Provide technical leadership for energy and commodities trading and risk systems. Own architecture for trade capture, trade lifecycle, position management, pricing, market data, risk, cashflow, and reporting workflows. Translate business and client needs into system designs and roadmaps, lead cross-language projects, establish engineering standards, and mentor developers. Improve cloud infrastructure, containerized deployment, observability, and performance while collaborating with quantitative developers, product managers, and clients.

Lead the architecture, development, customization, and integration of NetSuite finance systems supporting accounting, Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report processes. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Audit, and Data Engineering teams to implement controls, improve close processes, enhance reporting, ensure SOX and GAAP compliance, and manage integrations. Establish NetSuite engineering standards, mentor engineers, oversee data governance, and provide technical leadership for scalable finance technology solutions.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, scalable full-stack systems, team operations, reliability, monitoring, code quality, and talent development. The role involves building customer-facing card experiences and backend services using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, and React-based frameworks. The engineer will own features end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, manage technical risks and trade-offs, support on-call health, and apply AI safely to improve development and customer experiences.

Lead large-scale initiatives for a high-performance Linux-based network sensor, improving ingestion, scalability, continuous capture, queue reliability, observability, and production diagnostics. Own root cause analysis and postmortems, establish engineering standards, translate business goals into technical plans, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews. The role requires deep Rust expertise, distributed systems experience, concurrent programming, packet capture, message brokers, and cybersecurity best practices.

Build a greenfield, low-latency algorithmic execution platform in C++. Responsibilities include developing FIX gateways, exchange market data feed handlers, venue connectivity, pre-trade risk controls, platform infrastructure, audit logging, and algorithmic strategy migration. The role requires optimizing critical paths for microsecond-level performance while integrating U.S. exchanges and dark venues. Future work includes multi-asset execution, research and backtesting, and international market expansion.

Improve Radar’s geocoding and autocomplete systems at massive scale by enhancing query understanding, retrieval, ranking, relevance, and location-data quality. Build automated data pipelines, integrate messy global sources, and apply ML or LLMs where useful. Work across Scala and Python data pipelines, Rust search and serving systems, and customer-facing product improvements while participating in on-call support.

Design and deliver scalable full-stack applications using .NET/C#, React, SQL Server, and Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include building APIs and responsive interfaces, optimizing databases, deploying and monitoring cloud applications, applying secure coding and testing practices, troubleshooting production issues, documenting technical solutions, participating in code reviews, and collaborating with stakeholders. The role also supports other developers and contributes to architecture, code quality, and cloud practices.