Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Own technical strategy and architecture for scalable APIs, services, data platforms, and distributed systems across multiple teams. Drive reliability, performance, security, technical debt reduction, and organization-wide engineering standards. Partner with product, design, machine learning, and leadership teams to translate ambiguous goals into technical plans. Guide safe adoption of AI-assisted development, mentor senior engineers, lead architecture reviews, and remain hands-on with high-impact engineering work.

Build and ship new products from zero to one across backend services, APIs, data pipelines, AI-driven workflows, and React front ends. Partner with customers to prototype solutions, design experiments, analyze results, and guide product direction. Establish technical architecture and reusable standards, then scale successful prototypes into production systems. Collaborate with product, platform, data, and operations teams while using AI tools throughout development.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Zocdoc’s Provider Engagement Platform. Design data pipelines, real-time practice intelligence systems, APIs, and ML integrations that power personalization and recommendations. Lead complex cross-team initiatives, make infrastructure decisions, ship production code using C#, React, and AWS, and mentor engineers while promoting strong engineering, testing, and observability practices.

Build and operate full-stack features across Tono’s TypeScript monorepo, including database schemas, migrations, APIs, React interfaces, AI clinical tools, billing, telemetry, and durable platform infrastructure. Design reliable agent systems with evaluation, monitoring, human review, and safe fallbacks. Work closely with physicians and founders in a regulated healthcare environment while improving performance, maintainability, observability, and patient-facing workflows.

Build and maintain the core gameplay recorder, including capture, encoding, hooks, and game integrations such as auto-clipping. Design scalable architecture, establish guardrails and best practices, improve maintainability, and enable safe contributions across teams. Collaborate closely with engineers, share knowledge, pair with teammates, and optimize performance-driven features. The role is hands-on and requires working onsite in New York City five days per week.

Build and operate integrations connecting Stream with third-party applications, services, and AI tools. Design agent tools, context passing, confirmations, and result handling; manage OAuth, tokens, webhooks, rate limits, retries, and failures. Develop MCP servers and clients, support applications without clean APIs, instrument integrations, and contribute to Stream’s real-time Python backend and on-call rotation.

Build and operate Temporal Cloud’s managed compute platform, including autoscaling systems, multi-tenant execution services, cloud integrations, control and data plane boundaries, security controls, observability, and reliability practices. Lead API design, rollout, incident response, technical reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentorship for production platform capabilities.

Staff Software Engineer role to design and build scalable, production-ready backend systems handling high throughput data. Move fast, iterate on large software projects, launch products, and participate in recruiting. Work across frontend and backend tech and influence platform and infrastructure decisions.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Build and maintain a full-stack sewer inspection analysis platform using React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, AWS, computer vision, geospatial analysis, and Temporal.io. Responsibilities include developing interactive dashboards, scalable APIs, video-processing workflows, mapping and risk-assessment tools, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing and deployment pipelines.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Nextdoor’s monetization platform, building scalable, reliable, secure systems for advertising and subscription products. Partner with Product, ML, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives. Improve engineering standards, observability, release safety, and developer productivity while remaining hands-on in implementation, debugging, launches, and production operations. Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leaders.

Leads technical vision and roadmap for Freenome’s cloud platform, designs and operates scalable Kubernetes-based systems, and drives cross-team initiatives. The role troubleshoots complex platform issues, improves reliability and cloud-cost efficiency, supports AI adoption, and builds secure infrastructure for AI and data workflows. It also mentors engineers, partners with scientific and technical teams, and remains hands-on with architecture, coding, design reviews, and operations.

Lead the technical direction of backend systems for a cybersecurity assessment platform. Design and build scalable services, APIs, data models, and event-driven workflows; make architecture and reliability decisions; write production code; improve observability and safe deployment practices; lead cross-team initiatives; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring; and translate customer and product goals into technical strategy.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise-scale software supporting healthcare revenue cycle operations. Designs scalable applications, APIs, microservices, integrations, cloud-native solutions, and healthcare interoperability workflows using HL7, FHIR, and EDI/X12. Leads architecture, automation, security, performance, code reviews, troubleshooting, modernization, and technical strategy while collaborating with product, operations, analytics, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Design and build Temporal Cloud’s multi-cloud infrastructure platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Own platform architecture, declarative infrastructure modeling, Kubernetes reconciliation, deployment control planes, reliability, recovery, and safe production rollouts. Lead system design, roadmap development, incident response, technical reviews, coaching, hiring, and cross-team collaboration while continuing to write production code in Go or another systems language.

Lead strategically important software and platform initiatives for Vanta’s Growth organization. Design and build customer-facing SaaS capabilities using TypeScript, React, and Node.js; identify friction through customer research and product analytics; and guide multi-quarter efforts from architecture through adoption. Establish technical direction, coordinate dependencies across teams, coach engineers, and partner with Product, Design, Sales, and Customer Success to improve conversion, activation, time to value, retention, and expansion.

The Lead Rust Software Engineer will design and build scalable applications, mentor teams on Rust, and contribute to complex product development.

Own the technical strategy and architecture for Vanta’s government product line. Design and build scalable compliance capabilities for federal, state, local, and education customers; establish reusable platform patterns; lead multi-quarter initiatives; collaborate with design partners and cross-functional teams; and mentor engineers while raising technical quality and engineering practices.

Set the multi-year technical direction for the Builder Platform, leading agent platforms, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and productivity engineering. Establish governance, architecture, standards, metrics, and adoption strategies across the company. Partner with engineering and business leaders to prioritize AI opportunities, improve developer productivity, guide customer-zero feedback into products and open-source frameworks, mentor technical leaders, and reduce operational burden through systemic improvements.

Own and evolve the architecture of Agiloft’s AWS-based cloud services and infrastructure. Lead scalable, secure, reliable, and observable distributed-system design; define service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns; and drive modernization, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Partner with CloudOps and engineering leadership on reliability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, improve developer experience, and guide long-term platform evolution.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading design reviews and sprint delivery, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and driving technical strategy, quality, security, performance, observability, and operational excellence.