Staff Software Engineer (Platform Team)

Pura is a fragrance technology company combining smart home technology with premium, clean scents to create personalized experiences. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership in building and scaling backend systems, drive technical excellence across teams, mentor engineers, and deliver reliable services that impact millions of customers.

Responsibilities:

• Drive technical excellence across multiple teams, mentor other engineers, and build reliable services used by millions of customers
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders across the organization to deliver robust solutions that directly impact our customers

Requirements:

• 10+ years in backend engineering with demonstrated technical leadership experience
• Ability to make pragmatic decisions about technical direction based on the needs of the business
• Deep experience with cloud platforms and services (We use AWS), including architecture, deployment, and optimization
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (We use Docker and Kubernetes)
• Deep expertise in various database technologies (We use Postgres,Redis, and DynamoDB)
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance optimization at scale
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical details to stakeholders of varying technical backgrounds
• Strong mentorship skills and ability to elevate the engineering team
• Experience with CI/CD practices and infrastructure as code (We use GitHub and Terraform)
• Strong experience with Golang, Javascript, Typescript
• Deep experience building and operating high-scale distributed systems
• Experience with IoT systems or connected devices
• Experience with distributed actor-based systems and/or libraries (dapr, akka, etc)
• Experience with real-time data processing