Top Staff Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Lead technical vision and software engineering excellence for Capital One’s Card Tech team. Build production-ready, AI-native systems; design distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant architectures and API platforms; ensure performance, security, and operability; decompose complex problems; mentor engineers; recruit talent; and share technical knowledge across the organization.

Architect and deliver scalable, secure systems across teams; solve complex cross-team problems; lead large technical initiatives; evaluate emerging technologies; mentor engineers; align technical direction with product and business outcomes while balancing performance, maintainability, and cost.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and operation of Snap’s omnichannel notification platform. Design scalable, highly available backend services, shared APIs, data models, orchestration, ranking, targeting, experimentation, and measurement systems. Drive cross-functional initiatives, improve reliability and observability, respond to incidents, develop technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across teams.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Metropolis Recognition Platform, spanning edge ingestion, identity resolution, real-time decisioning, notifications, and operator tools. Design scalable streaming pipelines, rules systems, privacy and consent models, observability, testing, and progressive delivery. Lead RFCs, cross-functional alignment, architectural reviews, mentorship, and production quality across application, computer vision, data, security, platform, and partner teams.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

The Distinguished Engineer will drive innovation in banking technology, lead software engineering projects, mentor teams, and utilize AI and advanced architectures for risk management.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, resilient distributed systems. Act as technical authority across teams, mentor engineers, drive architecture and CI/CD best practices, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and enhance observability while writing production-grade Java.

Lead the developer experience roadmap and own multi-language SDKs and the code-generation pipeline. Design CI, release automation, observability, and tooling (CLI, starter repos). Improve cross-language parity, docs, and developer onboarding; remove systemic friction and represent DX to Product, Engineering, and Partnerships.

Own technical strategy and architecture for agent infrastructure, tax computation, data pipelines, evaluation systems, and filing workflows. Design and ship highly available, correctness-critical systems; lead infrastructure investments; make build-versus-buy decisions; create technical roadmaps; advise founders and engineering leadership; and raise engineering quality through designs, code, reviews, and technical direction without direct authority.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s tax credits products using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React. Lead complex, multi-quarter engineering projects, address refactoring, performance, and reliability challenges, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, Design, and Platform teams. Mentor engineers, leverage AI tools and emerging AI frameworks, and deliver maintainable products that improve customer experiences at scale.

Lead the architecture, technical strategy, and implementation of Squarespace’s large-scale Communications Platform for email, push, and in-product notifications. Provide hands-on Java development, drive modernization and reliability improvements, mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, identify systemic risks, and influence cross-team architecture decisions while balancing delivery with long-term platform health.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will architect reliability strategies, manage observability, and drive operational excellence across teams, particularly in large-scale production systems.

Lead design and delivery of scalable software features from design through production. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, champion automation and CI/CD, ensure code quality and documentation, and drive process improvements to accelerate reliable feature delivery.

Design and evolve reliable edge computing systems connecting cameras, sensors, deployed hardware, and cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include architecture, distributed systems, diagnostic tooling, remote troubleshooting, sensor-fusion problems, code reviews, technical design discussions, and mentoring engineers. The role requires hands-on systems expertise across Linux, networking, hardware, and software, with ownership of ambiguous technical initiatives from conception through delivery.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Own and modernize Domino's Tempest scale-testing platform; build repeatable automated validation, sizing guidance, and cloud-scale test automation; partner with platform teams to enable multi-cloud scale testing and improve test reliability and reporting.

Develop and maintain advisor payment systems; collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and financial transparency; manage backend services.

Design and implement scalable backend systems for advisor payments, ensuring accuracy and performance, while collaborating with product teams to enhance user experience.

Lead architecture and implementation of Zocdoc's interoperability platform integrating 170+ EHRs. Drive a rearchitecture for real-time, fail-fast syncs, design abstractions/APIs for other teams, ship production code, mentor engineers, and influence product and technical strategy to improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity across the integration stack.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.