Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement the backend architecture for Marimo's molab, focusing on high availability, low latency, and system stability, while utilizing CoreWeave's infrastructure.

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

Lead full‑stack development and architecture for Spark’s broker platform. Deliver customer‑facing features, partner with product/design, mentor engineers, resolve technical debt, and set engineering standards while using AI developer tools.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

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.

The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Payments platform, building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, defining roadmaps, ownership of production reliability, cross-functional partnership, and mentoring engineers to improve platform quality and scalability.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and operate traffic infrastructure, lead multi-team projects, ensure service reliability, and mentor engineers while utilizing AI tools for development efficiency.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase Payments, building high-availability, low-latency payment rails and funds-flow systems. Drive cross-team initiatives, enforce financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, auditability), improve reliability and cost efficiency using observability data, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and compliance to deliver scalable global payment solutions.

Lead architecture and development of a self-service spend management platform that moves money. Build reliable backend services, enforce budgets and spend tracking, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product/Design/Analytics, and integrate GenAI tools to improve spend recommendations and automation.

Lead architecture and implementation of Sages edge and backend IoT systems. Drive cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, develop on-premise and cloud services, enable diagnostics, OTA updates, and ML-based location tracking, and troubleshoot deployed hardware/software at scale.

The Staff Software Engineer leads the Developer Experience team, driving technical strategies and addressing complex developer productivity challenges at CoreWeave, focusing on building robust developer platforms and enhancing engineering processes.

Develop and manage high-performance back-end systems, design secure APIs, optimize performance in cloud environments, conduct testing, and manage ML model lifecycles.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead major projects, drive architectural innovation, interface with customers for solutions, and mentor engineers. Experience in software engineering and a strong grasp of AI, cloud scale, and evolving technologies is essential.

The Staff Software Engineer will enhance video capabilities, support live streaming and storage infrastructure, and collaborate on platform development. Responsibilities include coding, mentoring, and ensuring platform reliability for millions of users.

Design, build, deploy, and operate a high-concurrency, resilient configuration and publishing platform. Lead cross-team projects, set technical direction, improve engineering productivity, optimize performance, and maintain end-to-end ownership of distributed systems at scale.

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.

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

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