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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Chicago Hybrid) - **Company:** Motorola Solutions, Inc. - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $180,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Storage, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, Scrum Methodology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Transcoding, Video Editing, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, State Machines, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Event Driven Architecture, Virtual Private Clouds, Data Pipelines - **Published:** June 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=229bf2982bfa9ebf ## About the Role Do you have experience in Virtual Private Clouds?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Experience & Breadth: Bachelor's degree plus 5+ years of progressive technical experience, including success managing complex projects that span multiple sprints and teams. Rust and C++ experience is preferred. * GCP Deep Expertise: Recognized expert in the Google Cloud ecosystem, specifically GKE, VPC Service Controls, and IAM Workload Identity. * Systems Media Experience: Proven experience architecting large-scale video processing workflows, including worker-pool strategies for transcoding, bitstream manipulation, and metadata preservation. * Orchestration Mastery: Deep experience with event-driven architectures, state machine design, and managing complex service-to-service contracts. * Leadership Presence: Proven ability to lead through influence, facilitate technical consensus among senior peers, and drive team velocity. * Transformative AI Proficiency: Demonstrable experience using modern AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate the SDLC and automate complex task breakdowns., * Bachelors degree with 5+ years of full stack engineering and Python experience * AND 3+ years of Java experience * Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position. ## Description You will be responsible for taking vaguely defined product requirements and refining them into a scalable, asynchronous architecture that balances immediate delivery with long-term platform health. As a Technical Lead, you will oversee the Evidence Preparation and Egress domains, managing project milestones, sprint grooming, and team velocity. You will define the "North Star" for our development pipeline, integrating advanced AI methodologies to radically optimize how we build, secure, and deploy court-ready evidence., * Strategic Technical Leadership: Act as the Team Lead for the Evidence Domain, overseeing sprint planning, grooming, and driving the team toward critical delivery milestones. * GCP Ecosystem Architecture: Propose and defend robust architectures for high-stakes problems, leveraging GKE, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, and Cloud Storage to build fault-tolerant systems. * Media Pipeline Architecture: Architect scalable media processing pipelines, including distributed transcoding, storage optimization for high-volume video, and digital integrity verification (SHA-256) to ensure court-ready evidence. * Universal Egress Design: Architect a vendor-agnostic "Adapter Pattern" for evidence transfers, ensuring the platform can securely handshake with any third-party repository via OAuth 2.0 and mTLS. * Requirements Refinement: Partner with Product Management to translate broad visions into actionable technical stories and architectural blueprints. * Cross-Team Coordination: Drive interactions across infrastructure and security teams to resolve dependencies and ensure the platform remains cohesive and performant. * AI Frontier Development: Lead the implementation of LLM-powered features (e.g., automated evidence summarization via Vertex AI), ensuring rigorous monitoring of live metrics and feedback-loop integration. * Advanced Mentorship: Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) across the organization, coaching engineers and setting the standard for technical excellence. ## Related Videos - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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