What You'll Do- Own and drive technical strategy across multiple squads, shaping architectural decisions that have a lasting impact on Onebrief's platform.
- Tackle the company's most ambiguous technical challenges, turning loosely defined problems into scalable solutions that teams can execute.
- Build the shared systems, patterns, and platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to move faster and deliver more effectively.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to influence the technical roadmap, balancing long-term platform health with rapid customer delivery.
- Shape how engineering works by evolving AI-assisted development practices, engineering standards, and technical decision-making across the organization.
- Raise the technical bar by mentoring engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, and cross-team collaboration.
What We Look For- 12+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership across teams and platforms.
- Strong experience designing scalable distributed systems, APIs, data models, and cloud-native architectures.
- Full-stack expertise with the ability to work across frontend, backend, and infrastructure as needed.
- Active user of AI-assisted development tools, with a thoughtful approach to integrating them into engineering workflows.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including driving technical alignment through design docs and architecture discussions.
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and influencing without direct authority.
Nice to Have Qualifications- Background in mission-critical or high-compliance domains (FedRAMP, SOC2, DoD)
- Experience with authentication and identity infrastructure at scale (OIDC, SAML, federated identity)
- Prior experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment scaling through significant inflection points
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and the trade-offs of async-first system design
Indicators of SuccessA successful Staff Software Engineer will:
- Set technical direction on a problem that spans multiple squads, framing it clearly enough that teams move in the same direction instead of solving it in isolation
- Make the architectural calls that others build on, choosing the tradeoffs that save the org months rather than the ones that get paid down for years
- Own the shared architecture in the seams no single squad holds, the systems that everyone depends on and no one is scoped to
- Raise the technical judgment of the engineers around them, so good decisions get made even when they're not in the room
- Refines the standard for how the org uses AI tooling well, keeping quality and ownership intact as the leverage goes up
Tools, Systems & Technologies- Frontend: React, TypeScript, Vite, shared component libraries, client-side observability
- Backend: Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, secure RESTful APIs, distributed services
- Authentication & Authorization: Keycloak, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, ABAC, JWT, federated identity provider integrations
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, container security and secrets management
- Integrations: CSV/Excel/KML importers, PDF exports, DoD and enterprise data systems, secure API gateways, auditing pipelines
