Senior Staff Software Engineer

Bluestaq is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and product areas. The role drives large-scale architecture, cross-team engineering practices, and reliability, security, and scalability improvements while coaching senior technical talent.

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering efforts that span multiple teams or product areas, including major re-architectures, new platform capabilities, and cross-cutting reliability or security programs
• Serve as a key technical partner for program leadership, product management, and cross-functional leads
• Design and drive implementation of large-scale architectures: platform components, shared libraries, major system migrations, and cross-product integrations
• Apply deep expertise across the full stack—backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure—to navigate complex performance, scalability, reliability, and security tradeoffs
• Drive improvements in core engineering practices across multiple teams: testing strategy, observability, CI/CD pipelines, coding standards, and security posture
• Identify and reduce unnecessary technical fragmentation by harmonizing patterns, tooling, and shared standards across engineering groups
• Own cross-team technical outcomes with minimal direction, anticipating long-term risk and downstream impact before they become urgent
• Coach Staff and Senior engineers to run their own domains effectively and grow into broader technical leaders
• Represent engineering in high-level technical discussions about roadmap priorities, architectural tradeoffs, and organizational investment decisions
• Lead multi-team initiatives from concept to rollout, aligning multiple engineering groups around shared goals and compatible designs
• Recognize systemic weaknesses,test fragility, performance gaps, security posture, developer experience—and design programs to address them at scale

Requirements:

• Exceptional proficiency across multiple software engineering domains: distributed systems, API design, data architecture, frontend or backend development, and platform engineering
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team technical initiatives from concept through production at organizational scale, with measurable impact on reliability, performance, or engineering velocity
• Deep expertise in large-scale system design, platform architecture, and cross-cutting technical strategy spanning multiple stacks and deployment environments
• Strong track record of driving cross-team engineering improvements in testing, observability, CI/CD, security, or shared infrastructure
• Proven ability to identify and resolve systemic technical risks and fragmentation across multiple codebases and teams
• Demonstrated success coaching and developing Staff-level engineers into broader technical leaders
• Excellent technical communication skills: ability to influence and align multiple engineering teams behind shared architectural decisions, patterns, and standards
• Experience navigating cross-team organizational dynamics and delivering technical outcomes across reporting boundaries without formal authority
• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 6+ years of software engineering or related experience
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 8+ years of software engineering or related experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 10+ years of software engineering or related experience
• Associate degree in a related field and 12+ years of software engineering or related experience
• High School Diploma/GED and 14+ years of software engineering or related experience
• You use modern AI tools with judgment: integrating them into workflows where they're impactful, reviewing their outputs, and handling proprietary or sensitive data responsibly
• This position may require an active TS/SCI Clearance
• Experience designing or owning shared platforms, internal developer tooling, or cross-cutting infrastructure components used across multiple product teams
• Background in large-scale system migrations, performance engineering programs, or multi-year reliability initiatives
• Deep familiarity with DoD, intelligence community, or federal software delivery and security standards including RMF, NIST 800-53, or STIG compliance
• Experience managing architectural technical debt at scale and driving simplification programs across large, complex codebases
• History of developing Staff-level technical talent through direct coaching, structured mentorship, or technical leadership programs
• Contributions to engineering strategy, hiring, or technical community beyond immediate team scope
• External recognition as a technical leader: publications, conference presentations, open-source project ownership, or standards contributions