Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer leading the Core Integrations team at Shipt. Defining technical standards and architectural strategy for high-scale systems.

Posted 5/31/2026full-timeMinneapolis • Alabama, California, Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $95,800 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKafka

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the architecture and technical quality for all applications developed by your team.
Drive strategic initiatives to optimize the stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical systems.
Regularly work across and influence Product, Platform, and other engineering teams to align on technical direction, prioritization, and solution design.
Establish the domain-wide standard for operational excellence.
Set the highest bar for engineering fundamentals, including test coverage (Unit, Integration, E2E) and code quality.
Evaluate and evolve engineering processes (CI/CD, RFCs, Post-mortems) to eliminate systemic inefficiencies and improve team velocity.

What you’ll need

7+ years of software development experience, specifically building and maintaining complex, highly distributed systems in cloud environments at significant scale.
Deep expertise in Golang (or similar systems languages) and a sophisticated understanding of relational databases, advanced caching strategies, and message brokers (Kafka).
A proven ability to diagnose, resolve, and prevent complex bottlenecks in distributed architectures, high-volume services, and database query performance.
You are a dedicated mentor who can grow the careers of those around you, specifically acting as a resource and guide for Senior Engineers, Engineers and Associate Engineers.
You thrive in environments with high degrees of freedom, taking full architectural ownership and driving the "Definition of Done" for your services from concept to operation.
You possess the judgment to balance the need for architectural purity with the reality of business delivery.

Comp & perks

Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.
Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Golangrelational databasescaching strategiesmessage brokersKafkaCI/CDUnit testingIntegration testingE2E testingdistributed systems

Soft Skills

mentorshipleadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationjudgmentstrategic thinkinginfluenceoperational excellenceteam velocity improvement