Staff Software Engineer

This Staff-level position is part of the Datto Endpoint Backup product group. The Staff Backend Engineer (Golang) will drive architectural direction, lead complex cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure our backup and cloud services systems are scalable, resilient, and strategic., Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Serve as a domain expert for backend systems within Datto Endpoint Backup and influence technical direction across product lines.

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high-performance, secure, and fault-tolerant backend services.

• Define and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural frameworks.

System Design & Feature Ownership

• Own mission-critical features and subsystems-from concept to production rollout-and ensure operational excellence.

• Conduct deep design reviews, provide technical oversight, and guide teams through complex engineering challenges.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product Management, SRE, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to align on roadmaps, scope large initiatives, and balance business requirements with technical scalability.

• Participate in long-term planning, capacity forecasting, and technical roadmap creation.

Mentorship & Organizational Impact

• Mentor engineers across multiple teams through code reviews, design sessions, and technical coaching.

• Raise the overall engineering bar through knowledge sharing, internal talks, and documentation.

• Provide guidance in incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.

Technical Stack

• Backend: Golang, gRPC, REST APIs

• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes

• Databases: Cassandra, PostgreSQL

• 8+ years building large-scale backend systems; expertise in Golang.

• Deep experience with gRPC, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes.

• Experience working on and developing for Linux

• Expertise with PostgreSQL and Cassandra.

• Strong architectural leadership with microservices and distributed systems.

• Familiarity with QEMU/KVM, VMware ESX, Hyper-V

• Strong testing methodology knowledge.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Technical Expertise

• 8+ years of professional experience building large-scale backend systems, with extensive proficiency in Golang (or comparable languages with the ability to transition quickly).

• Deep expertise in designing, consuming, and evolving REST APIs and gRPC for high-throughput and distributed environments.

• Strong experience building and operating containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes in production.

• Demonstrated experience designing resilient systems using relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and Cassandra.

Architectural Leadership

• Strong command of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-driven patterns.

• Experience shaping technical strategy, influencing cross-team architecture, and making long-term design decisions.

• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across scalability, cost, performance, and operational overhead.

Software Quality & Engineering Practices

• Deep understanding of testing methodologies, including unit, integration, and load testing.

• Experience building observable systems (logging, metrics, tracing).

• Comfort working across Windows and Linux environments.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills; able to articulate complex technical concepts to both engineers and stakeholders.

• Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives, set technical standards, and drive execution.

• Skilled at decomposing ambiguous problems and defining clear, scalable solutions.

• Adept at mentoring senior and mid-level engineers across multiple teams., * Advanced CI/CD pipeline development (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

• Experience building Windows services or working with NTFS internals

• Experience with ZFS

• Experience with object stores

• Experience developing for macOS

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