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Staff Software Engineer

DataRobot · Boston, United States

External listingfull-time3 months ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer, where you'll take on a leadership role in shaping technical direction and mentoring engineers. You'll work across control plane systems, influence cross-team roadmaps, and drive modernization efforts. This role includes participation in an on-call rotation and offers a range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible time off, and work from home opportunities.

  • Architect and implement scalable, secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure for multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Lead technical direction for core Fleet initiatives—control plane services, tenancy models, deployment pipelines, observability layers, and more.
  • Mentor engineers across the team, fostering a strong engineering culture of ownership, curiosity, and excellence.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and operations, including networking, scheduling, scaling, and controller patterns
  • Strong experience with Helm, container orchestration patterns, and CI/CD automation
  • Experience operating across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and/or hybrid environments
  • Strong proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python or Go. Experience building production-quality, reliable, and observable systems that are used across engineering organizations
  • Comfortable working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and GitOps workflows
  • Proven ability to design and build systems from scratch, making pragmatic tradeoffs along the way
  • Ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders around technical decisions
  • A growth-oriented mindset—driven to teach, learn, and improve systems as well as people
  • 7-10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5+ in infrastructure, platform, or backend systems roles
  • Familiarity with Cilium, Kyverno, KEDA, Gateway API, OPA, or similar technologies
  • Experience building and running multi-tenant SaaS platforms
  • Exposure to on-prem delivery models or regulated environments
  • Experience with performance tuning for large-scale data or compute workloads
  • Experience working with GPU infrastructure for training and inference
  • Past success driving infrastructure transformation or decomposing legacy systems

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