Dispel

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Dispel

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $194,000 - $216,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Own the full arc of our most consequential technical initiatives: from architecture and planning through coordination, testing strategy, and delivery.
  • Debug the hardest problems Dispel encounters.
  • Define the methods and procedures your team uses.
  • Deliver complex systems on time and on budget, taking personal responsibility for the risks associated with your team's work.
  • Coordinate with other teams on cross-cutting technical issues, including infrastructure, security, and network architecture.
  • Make other engineers better through substantive proposals, reviews, architectural guidance, technical documentation, and direct mentorship.
  • Actively work to refine your team's approach to security, reliability, privacy, and compliance focused on network infrastructure and cloud environments.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of leading team projects involving multiple engineers.
  • Strong proficiency in software development across multiple languages and paradigms — you are effective in the languages your team uses and can pick up new ones as needed.
  • Comfortable using coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) as part of your daily workflow.
  • Solid understanding of network architecture: routing, switching, VPN protocols, DNS, and firewalls.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms — AWS and/or Azure — including networking constructs such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, transit gateways, and private endpoints.
  • Experience with on-premises virtualization: hypervisors (ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, or similar), VM lifecycle management.
  • Demonstrated ability to own cross-team projects and navigate organizational complexity to deliver results.
  • Experience producing technical proposals, architecture documents, and system designs that inform and align diverse stakeholders.
  • Proven track record of setting team-level engineering standards and driving their adoption.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems: databases, caches, queues, event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Depending on your background you should have a deeper understanding of one or more of the following areas:
  • - **Full Stack**
  • - **Backend**
  • - **DevOps**
  • - **Networking**
Benefits
  • **We Offer:**
  • - $194,000 – 216,000 salary range
  • - 401(k) w/ company match
  • - Unlimited paid time off
  • - Parental leave
  • - Full medical, dental, vision insurance
  • - Life insurance
  • - Disability insurance
  • - Health savings account
  • - Performance bonus and equity eligible
  • - Remote work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringnetwork architecturecloud platformsAWSAzurevirtualizationdistributed systemsfull stack developmentbackend developmentDevOps
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcommunicationproblem-solvingproject managementcollaborationtechnical documentationorganizational navigationrisk managementproposal development