Staff Software Engineer
DISCO — Austin, TX
Posted 2026-08-25
Your Impact The Staff Software Engineer (Backend) is an experienced engineer who leads large-scale projects and are key contributors 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 solutions. What You'll Do Technical Leadership and Mentorship : Provides technical leadership in project teams, guiding engineers, and contributing to technical decision-making. Quality Architects for System Design for sub-systems that they know / own. 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 a plan to address those problems Stakeholder Engagement : Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with busin