Platform Staff Engineer - UK
DISCO — London, England
Posted 2026-08-26
Your Impact The Staff Software Engineer (Platform) leads large-scale projects and is a key contributor to their group's success. They are involved in long-term strategic planning, mentor senior engineers, and are influential in technical decision-making across multiple teams or a department. They focus on implementation and system design, as well as maintaining and evolving DISCO’s distributed data platform. What You'll Do Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provides technical leadership in project teams, guiding engineers, and contributing to technical decision-making. Sets technical direction for large projects or teams, driving innovation, and solving organization-wide problems. Performance Optimization: Focuses on designing systems for high performance, scalability, and reliability. Ownership: Proactively identifies areas of products and systems that currently have problems or will develop problems as well as makes plans to address those problems. Stakeholder Engagement: Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with business needs and customer expectations. Software Development: Designs, develops