Staff Software Engineer

Optimizely Analytics is the industry leading warehouse native analytics platform used to unlock data-driven decisions for experiment analysis, product analytics, sales analytics and beyond. You will work in a small, nimble team that prides itself on shipping with speed and having engineers make product and design decisions with ownership and autonomy. As a rapidly growing product, there is tremendous opportunity to work on exciting and impactful areas of the product.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the architecture of highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.
• Drive technical excellence across the engineering organization by setting standards for code quality, system design, observability, and operational best practices.
• Collaborate closely with Product, UX, and Application Engineering teams to deliver impactful features while ensuring architectural soundness and scalability.
• Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers, fostering technical growth and elevating the overall team’s capabilities.
• Anticipate and address complex system challenges such as performance optimization, fault tolerance, and data-intensive workloads.
• Influence product direction, leveraging deep technical insight to shape roadmaps.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience with strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• 5+ years of backend experience building, deploying, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Deep expertise in system design, API design, scalability, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language (Java preferred).
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Prior experience as a technical lead or staff engineer, driving large cross-functional initiatives to completion.
• Experience building enterprise-grade backend infrastructure that handles high-volume, low-latency workloads.
• Proven ability to influence architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and scaling engineering organizations.
• Passion for working in fast-paced environments where you wear multiple hats and influence both product and technology.

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or engineering preferred) or equivalent work experience

• Displaying Technical Expertise
• Communicating Effectively
• Solving Complex Problems
• Demonstrating Initiative
• Delivering High Quality Work