ASAPP

Senior Staff Systems Engineer

ASAPP

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited 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

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
cloud platformAWSGCPAzureKubernetesPythonGolangdistributed systems design patternsreliability engineeringsystem performance and capacity planning
Soft skills
communicationconsensus-buildingstrategic thinkingmentorshipsystems thinkingleadershipinfluence