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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** ALTANA - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States - **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $230,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bioinformatics, Data Stores, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, NumPy, Swagger, Openapi, Large Language Models, Git, Pandas, Containerization, Pyspark, Kubernetes, Production Code, Machine Learning Operations, Celery, Docker, Databricks - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/staff-software-engineer-509978109 ## About the Role * 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 strong written and verbal communication skills. * Experience leading other engineers on complex projects. Nice to have, but not required * Experience with Python Machine Learning toolsets (Numpy, Pandas, Dedupe). * Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Technologies we love to use at Altana * Languages: Python, PySpark * Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Celery * Datastores: Databricks and Delta Lakes ## Description * Partner with the product team to decide what to build, not just how. Form hypotheses about customer value, design the smallest experiment that could prove them out, and learn fast. Push back on briefs that aren't grounded in evidence. * Take new product surfaces from 0 to 1. Pitch, prototype, ship, and drive adoption with real users. You are as fluent in "did this land?" as you are in "is this maintainable?" * Build AI-native by default. LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, and modern AI tooling are first-class building blocks in your stack, not bolt-ons. You make principled choices about where AI changes the product equation and where it doesn't. * Own end-to-end outcomes. From the first customer conversation to telemetry on the dashboard six months later - including the architecture and instrumentation choices that make that telemetry meaningful. * Set the technical bar for your team. Review designs and code with a high standard for quality, simplicity, and customer impact, and a low tolerance for engineering work that can't be traced back to a customer outcome. * Mentor engineers in customer-centric, hypothesis-driven product development. Help them build the instincts to talk to users, run experiments, and tell when a feature is done because it's loved, not because the ticket is closed. * Drive technical decision-making with a bias toward shipping. Choose practical, iterative designs that get a working version in front of customers fast, then evolve them as you learn., 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. 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