
Senior Staff Systems Engineer
ASAPP
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $240,000 - $265,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Act as a technical authority and advisor across multiple engineering teams
- Develop and drive alignment on system design, technical roadmaps, best practices
- Design and implement a scalable, multi-tenant deployment architecture that supports easy configuration of agents and business workflows for various customers
- Define the communication, state management, and orchestration patterns for multi-agent systems
- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the bar on systems thinking across the organization
- Own and define system-level SLOs/SLIs for high-traffic, real-time voice and text services, focusing on latency, cost-efficiency, and fault tolerance across the ecosystem
- Identify systemic risks and proactively design mitigation strategies
- Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure systems meet regulatory and security requirements
- Lead post-incident analysis and drive systemic improvements
- Partner with Product, Customer Engineering, SRE, and TPMs to translate business requirements into system designs
- Work with Research to evaluate and productionize cutting-edge ideas in the ML space
- Drive complex initiatives that span multiple quarters and involve multiple teams
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale production systems
- Mastery in at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Expertise with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Expertise with Python and/or Golang
- Excellent communication, consensus-building, strategic thinking, and mentorship abilities.
- Deep understanding of:
- Distributed systems design patterns (e.g., service mesh, event-driven architecture, microservices).
- Reliability engineering principles
- System performance and capacity planning
- Ability to lead through influence rather than authority
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud platformAWSGCPAzureKubernetesPythonGolangdistributed systems design patternsreliability engineeringsystem performance and capacity planning
Soft skills
communicationconsensus-buildingstrategic thinkingmentorshipsystems thinkingleadershipinfluence