# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $228,000 - $285,000 in Seattle, WA; $240,000 - $300,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; New York, NY
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/carta/jobs/7656304003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Django
- React
- Postgres
- JVM languages
- gRPC
- cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)
- distributed systems
- technical leadership

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