Staff Applications Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Applications Engineer with 10+ years of professional software engineering experience to provide deep technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and drive the design and execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in defining technical strategy, shaping architecture, establishing engineering best practices, and delivering scalable, high-quality software solutions that support long-term business objectives., * Lead the architecture, design, and execution of large-scale, cross-team engineering initiatives from concept through production.

• Define architectural standards, engineering principles, and reusable design patterns adopted across multiple product and platform teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, influencing engineering excellence across the organization.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering decision-making for mission-critical systems.
• Translate long-term technology strategy into executable engineering roadmaps and technical initiatives.
• Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability of critical applications and platforms.
• Lead incident response for high-impact production issues and establish processes for continuous operational improvement.
• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product management, architects, and executive stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities.
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices for software development, testing, documentation, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute hands-on development to high-impact components where technical leadership is most valuable.
• Raise the engineering hiring bar by participating in technical interviews, mentoring interviewers, and improving hiring processes.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional planning, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, helping stakeholders make informed technical decisions.
• Author and review architecture documents, technical RFCs, design specifications, and architecture decision records (ADRs) to create lasting technical documentation.

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position., * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience leading large-scale, cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Proven success designing and delivering complex distributed systems, cloud-native applications, or large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Deep expertise in one or more areas including distributed systems, cloud platforms, microservices architecture, or large-scale data systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one modern backend language such as Java, C#, Go, Python, or C++.
• Extensive experience with system architecture, software design patterns, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers and providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills., * Experience leading enterprise-scale platform modernization or digital transformation initiatives.
• Public technical contributions such as conference presentations, open-source projects, technical blogs, or published papers.
• Hands-on experience operating and supporting high-scale production systems.
• Experience influencing engineering organizations, technology strategy, and software architecture across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and cost-aware engineering practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and modern cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

4.24.2 out of 5 stars Remote $150,000 - $190,000 a year - Full-time

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.