Staff Software Engineer

Torc Robotics is a leader in autonomous driving technology, focused on developing software for automated trucks. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership across teams, driving architectural strategy and ensuring the delivery of scalable, reliable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and maintaining the architectural vision across teams, platforms, and services to ensure scalability, reliability, maintainability, and long-term technical alignment
• Driving architectural consistency across APIs, data models, infrastructure, system integrations, and software design patterns
• Leading major technical initiatives such as platform modernization, observability enhancements, performance optimization, scalability improvements, and reliability engineering efforts
• Coordinating cross-team technical projects and aligning engineering standards, infrastructure decisions, and roadmap priorities across organizations
• Supporting Engineering Managers and Senior ICs in resolving complex technical design, architecture, and implementation challenges across multiple domains
• Establishing and promoting engineering best practices for code quality, automated testing, performance optimization, monitoring, security, and operational excellence
• Partnering with Release Management and DevOps teams to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release reliability, and incident response readiness
• Identifying, prioritizing, and reducing systemic technical debt, architectural bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies across teams and platforms
• Conducting architecture reviews, technical deep dives, design sessions, and technical assessments to guide engineering decisions and solution direction
• Mentoring and coaching senior and mid-level engineers while helping grow future Staff and Principal engineers through technical guidance and leadership development
• Fostering a culture of engineering excellence, documentation, collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing across the organization
• Proactively identifying technical risks related to scalability, system architecture, cybersecurity, reliability, compliance, and data usage
• Helping balance and prioritize investments between new feature development, platform improvements, operational stability, and technical debt reduction
• Acting as a technical leader in product and roadmap discussions, partnering with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, architects, and designers to align technical feasibility with business objectives
• Translating complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and architectural decisions into clear recommendations for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven experience operating as a Staff, Principal, or multi-team technical leader within complex engineering organizations
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, scalable backend systems, and modern cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices including CI/CD, observability, testing strategies, and operational reliability
• Experience leading large cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams
• Strong systems design and architecture review experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop senior engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving and technical decision-making capabilities
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation
• Experience improving developer platforms and engineering productivity tooling
• Knowledge of modern observability and monitoring systems
• Experience in high-growth or large-scale distributed engineering environments
• Prior experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or core systems development