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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** ALTANA - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $225,000.0 - $265,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bioinformatics, Data Stores, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Standard Sql, TypeScript, Git, Fastapi, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Production Code, Data Analytics, Machine Learning Operations, Docker, Databricks - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/senior-staff-software-engineer-509976076 ## About the Role * BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience. * 12+ years of real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments. * You've deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments. * You have demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production. * Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems. * You care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing. * You have experience with taking over codebases and making them your own, carrying forward with new feature development. * You are a master of prioritizing and picking your area of focus intentionally * You have strong written and verbal communication skills. * Experience leading other engineers on complex projects. Nice to have, but not required * Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes * Experience using workflow orchestration technologies like Temporal Technologies we love to use at Altana * Languages: Python, TypeScript, SQL * Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, FastAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Temporal * Datastores: Postgres, Databricks and OpenSearch ## Description * Ingest product requirements, define technical requirements, and design practical, iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals. * Work with your product manager to develop implementation plans against our technical product roadmaps. * Personally maintain, develop, and deploy our customer facing workflows to create and support our overall product architecture. * Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent, enable, and enhance our product offerings. * Be responsible for automating, testing, and deploying your own and your team's work. * Review the code and technical designs authored by your team members, and hold a high bar for quality. * Mentor developers and help them level up their skills. * Be responsible for the technical excellence of day-to-day work of a team of engineers and ensure that the team's deliverables are maturing along the defined roadmap. * Drive technical decision-making and problem-solving across the team, ensuring solutions are efficient, scalable, and maintainable. * Identify technical and operational gaps for the team and create plans and work items to address them. * Serve as the domain expert for a portion of the product surface area, while holding a firm technical understanding for other areas as well. * Cooperate with team leads and managers in order to keep the team focused on outcomes while delivering sustainable and consistent code., Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are, what we stand for, and how we behave.They form the foundation of Altana's culture and integrity and guide how we hire, design, build, and connect with each other and our customers. * Trust: Our customers and partners entrust us with missions of the highest importance. We honor that by keeping our word, meeting commitments, and ensuring every action we take reinforces confidence in us. We rely on each other to deliver, to speak openly, and to hold ourselves accountable. * Resilience: In a world of uncertainty and complexity, our work must withstand challenges, evolve with conditions, and ensure reliability over time. Resilience is both how we operate and what we deliver. It's how we respond when things don't go to plan -- we adapt, we support each other, and we keep moving forward. * Stewardship: We are stewards of every mission we touch. Because our work impacts lives and futures, we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus, creativity, and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable, we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission. * Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It's the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big, complicated network problems-the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed, but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger, and it's demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects. At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation. Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. 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