Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will direct the architecture of observability pipelines, build scalable log management systems, and enhance performance in customer-managed environments.

Lead the development of scalable frontend components, define technical direction, and optimize processes for engineering teams while embracing AI tools.

Lead architecture and technical planning for AI-enabled backend products, build proof-of-concepts, mentor backend engineers, integrate LLMs into customer-facing systems, collaborate with Product and Design, and unblock technical debt to scale high-impact, high-growth services.

Build and enhance AI applications for enterprises, focusing on frontend development using modern technologies like Next.js and React. Collaborate with teams to create intuitive user experiences and optimize UI performance.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll scale the Scale Generative AI Platform, owning product areas, working across multiple tech stacks, and solving engineering challenges.

Design and maintain scalable backend services, driving engineering excellence and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance platform capabilities.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop backend services for commerce, ensuring secure payment processes and system reliability, while leading cross-functional technical efforts.

Lead frontend architecture and implementation for patient and provider web experiences at scale. Build accessible, performant realtime UIs, own end-to-end delivery, improve observability and reliability, contribute to technical roadmap, collaborate with PMs and designers, participate in on-call rotations, and drive engineering best practices.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead architectural design and delivery of critical systems, ensuring performance and efficiency at scale, while mentoring others in the engineering community.

Lead the design of distributed systems, drive large initiatives, and enhance technical architecture at Whatnot, fostering rapid growth and stability.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and develop systems connecting patients and providers, improve data reliability, and mentor engineers. They will work on generative AI technologies to enhance user experiences.

Lead full‑stack development for Gusto's PEO Benefits product: design and build benefits shopping, plan recommendation flows, carrier integrations, automation agents, and MCP tools; scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems; mentor engineers; drive multi‑quarter, cross‑functional projects from spec through launch and iteration; collaborate with Product, Data, Design, and Platform teams to deliver customer‑facing features.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

The Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity will lead a remote team to enhance developer productivity, focusing on AI integration, tooling evaluation, and team development while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will enhance platform engineering by improving deployment strategies and developer experiences, establishing reliable systems and mentorship across teams.

Responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure for a child care business platform, focusing on scalability, security, and developer tools. Collaborates to enhance deployment, optimize build processes, and maintain logging and monitoring systems.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Lead design and implementation of LLM observability features: prototype and scale product capabilities for tracing, evaluating, and debugging generative AI systems. Work cross-functionally to influence architecture, mentor engineers, prioritize customer pain points, and drive product and engineering decisions for reliable, high-performance AI observability.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design and enhance secure identity, privacy-first systems, and manage customer data flows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and security protocols are maintained.