
Staff Backend Engineer
Cube
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $156,741 - $212,061 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as a technical North Star for our engineering organization.
- Shape the architectural patterns, infrastructure standards, and engineering habits that allow our entire team to scale.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to transform ambiguous business needs into robust distributed systems.
- Take ownership of complex initiatives end-to-end, influencing infrastructure, deployment strategies, observability practices, and long-term system health.
- Help build scalable engineering foundations, reusable abstractions, and internal frameworks that accelerate the entire team.
Requirements
- Typically brings 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates who demonstrate strong Staff-level impact, ownership, and technical leadership.
- You have clear, experience-backed opinions on distributed systems and long-term architecture. You don’t just solve today’s problem; you design systems that support years of growth.
- Deep knowledge of Django internals including middleware, database routing, management commands, signals, and performance optimization in high-scale, multi-tenant environments.
- Strong experience building and evolving distributed systems across cloud infrastructure. Comfortable debugging complex concurrency challenges such as race conditions, distributed deadlocks, async failures, and large-scale database performance issues.
- Experience with dataframe-based computation tools such as Pandas, Polars, or NumPy to power data-intensive workflows and financial modeling pipelines.
- Proven ability to define engineering standards, design reusable abstractions, and improve developer velocity through internal tooling and frameworks.
- Early adopter of AI-assisted engineering workflows to increase velocity without sacrificing reliability or code quality.
- Able to clearly explain architectural trade-offs to executives, product partners, and engineers at all levels.
- Familiarity with FP&A domain concepts such as trial balances, charts of accounts, fiscal calendars, scenario modeling, and multi-currency workflows.
Benefits
- We provide 100% covered employee medical, dental, and vision insurance options, including FSA/HSA options plus free memberships to OneMedical, Teladoc, and Talkspace.
- Our flexible paid vacation and sick/mental health time guidelines help you get the time and space you need.
- We offer stock options to all full-time employees of Cube, as we want you to be connected to the success of the company.
- We offer 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for the birthing parent.
- We offer each Cuber a quarterly learning budget to spend on books, classes, or events that support your development.
- You’ll be joining an experienced team of tech startup leaders who are eager to work with you and provide support and mentorship!
- You’ll work for a company that our customers are truly excited about!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringdistributed systemsDjangomiddlewaredatabase routingperformance optimizationcloud infrastructurePandasPolarsNumPy
Soft Skills
technical leadershipownershipcommunicationinfluencingproblem-solvingexplaining architectural trade-offscollaboration