Staff Software Engineer

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Carta, you will be a technical anchor for the business, taking long-term accountability for the technical health and strategic direction of different domains.

Responsibilities

• Navigate Ambiguity: Tackle complex and poorly defined problems at Carta, breaking them down into navigable paths for the rest of the organization.
• Champion Systemic Improvement: Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems, driving architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability.
• Bridge Technical Gaps: Use your deep understanding of cross-functional domains to align multiple teams on major technical decisions.
• Define the AI Frontier: Lead the charge in transforming how we build by defining the context and building the rails that allow every person at Carta to leverage AI tools safely and effectively.
• Uphold Engineering Standards: Set the vision for operational excellence and mentor senior engineers to raise the collective craft of the organization.

Requirements

• Expertise in building distributed systems, particularly with Python/Django, React, and Postgres.
• Comfortable guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS).
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of high-level technical leadership.
• Leadership skills, influencing others through communication and technical discipline.
• Ability to anticipate future roadblocks and build systems that support long-term business growth.

Salary

The expected cash compensation range for this role is:

• $228,000 - $285,000 in Seattle, WA
• $240,000 - $300,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; New York, NY