
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Dispel
full-time
Posted on:
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