Staff Software Engineer – Product

Crogl, Inc.

Staff Engineer at Crogl leading architecture and design for AI security platform. Delivering complex initiatives and driving technical decisions for a high-performance engineering team.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the architecture, technical design, and delivery for your team's area of the platform, turning roadmap into engineering plans that ship and hold up in production
Drive the hardest technical decisions in your domain and resolve ambiguous, high-risk problems before they become blockers
Design and build core parts of our compound AI system, spanning agents, LLMs, and RAG, with a focus on reliability, evaluation, and scale
Own your team's most complex, mission-critical initiatives end to end, from problem framing through production and iteration
Establish and champion engineering best practices, coding standards, architectural patterns, and AI-native development techniques within your team
Multiply your team's impact by mentoring senior and mid-level engineers, raising the quality bar through code review, design review, and your own hands-on work
Partner closely with your product and design counterparts to uncover requirements and align on priorities
Stay current with the state of the art in software engineering and applied AI, and bring the relevant advances into your part of the platform

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of back-end engineering experience, or equivalent, including time operating as the technical lead or architect for a team or a significant product area
Deep experience architecting production-grade distributed systems and scaling them, with strong fluency in one or more of Go, Python, or other major back-end (preferably statically typed) languages
Proven ability to set technical direction for a team and deliver complex, high-impact projects
Hands-on experience building or scaling AI systems in production, ideally LLM-based, agentic, or retrieval-augmented, with sound judgment on where AI genuinely fits
Strong business acumen and the ability to translate technical solutions into tangible business value
A continuous learning mindset and a bias toward proving out new approaches rather than only tracking them
Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, with a history of building consensus, elevating peers, and navigating cross-functional relationships.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Crogl is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoPythonAI-Native DevelopmentProduction-Grade SystemsArchitectural PatternsCoding StandardsComplex Problem SolvingTechnical DesignSystem ScalingCode Review

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentoringConsensus BuildingContinuous LearningBusiness Acumen