Staff Software Engineer

Torc Robotics is a leader in autonomous driving technology focused on developing software for automated trucks. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership across teams, driving architectural strategy and engineering excellence for cloud-based applications while collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and maintaining the architectural vision across teams, platforms, and services to ensure scalability, reliability, maintainability, and long-term technical alignment
• Driving architectural consistency across APIs, data models, infrastructure, system integrations, and software design patterns
• Leading major technical initiatives such as platform modernization, observability enhancements, performance optimization, scalability improvements, and reliability engineering efforts
• Coordinating cross-team technical projects and aligning engineering standards, infrastructure decisions, and roadmap priorities across organizations
• Supporting Engineering Managers and Senior ICs in resolving complex technical design, architecture, and implementation challenges across multiple domains
• Establishing and promoting engineering best practices for code quality, automated testing, performance optimization, monitoring, security, and operational excellence
• Partnering with Release Management and DevOps teams to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release reliability, and incident response readiness
• Identifying, prioritizing, and reducing systemic technical debt, architectural bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies across teams and platforms
• Conducting architecture reviews, technical deep dives, design sessions, and technical assessments to guide engineering decisions and solution direction
• Mentoring and coaching senior and mid-level engineers while helping grow future Staff and Principal engineers through technical guidance and leadership development
• Fostering a culture of engineering excellence, documentation, collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing across the organization
• Proactively identifying technical risks related to scalability, system architecture, cybersecurity, reliability, compliance, and data usage
• Helping balance and prioritize investments between new feature development, platform improvements, operational stability, and technical debt reduction
• Acting as a technical leader in product and roadmap discussions, partnering with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, architects, and designers to align technical feasibility with business objectives
• Translating complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and architectural decisions into clear recommendations for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven experience operating as a Staff, Principal, or multi-team technical leader within complex engineering organizations
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, scalable backend systems, and modern cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices including CI/CD, observability, testing strategies, and operational reliability
• Experience leading large cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams
• Strong systems design and architecture review experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop senior engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving and technical decision-making capabilities
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation
• Experience improving developer platforms and engineering productivity tooling
• Knowledge of modern observability and monitoring systems
• Experience in high-growth or large-scale distributed engineering environments
• Prior experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or core systems development