Senior Engineer - Foundations (REMOTE)

Discogs•Beaverton, OR

1d•$120,000 - $127,500•Remote

About The Position

Who We’re Looking For The Senior Engineer is a high-impact technical role responsible for designing, building, and maintaining complex systems while fostering a culture of engineering excellence. Across all levels, you are expected to shift from pure execution to empowerment, co-creating quality standards and providing technical guidance that enables squads to be self-sufficient and decoupled. You serve as a bridge between high-level architectural vision and the practical delivery of product needs. Location While we are remote we are only hiring within the following areas: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Requirements

Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in modern software architecture, including microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native systems.
Product Thinking: Ability to treat internal platforms and tools as products where fellow engineers are the customers.
Communication: Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
Agile Proficiency: Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban with a focus on delivering MVPs over large-scale waterfall projects.
Influence: Ability to build consensus across teams and drive change without direct authority.
5+ years of software engineering or operations experience.
2+ years of experience in a senior role.
Building, operating, troubleshooting and optimizing production systems under load.
Delivered software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks.
Interface with relational databases using SQL.
Using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC.
Familiarity with Build systems, DevOps and CI/CD procedures.
Familiarity with cloud services.
Thorough understanding of HTTP APIs.
Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members.
Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance.
Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers.
Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers.
Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.
Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas.

Nice To Haves

Use of containerization and orchestration technologies, Docker and Kubernetes.
Node.js, FastAPI, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Flask, Redis, Memcached
AWS, DataDog, Cloudflare Workers, WP Engine
Microservices, distributed/edge systems and event driven architectures.
ADA / WCAG Compliance

Responsibilities

Technical Delivery & Quality: Design and implement robust, scalable software solutions while maintaining 100% adherence to sanctioned CI/CD templates and meeting defined SLAs. Participates in and leads response to on-call incidents.
Golden Path Adoption: Actively drive the use of standardized tools and technologies to reduce development friction and improve "Time to First Commit". Contributes to the evolution of the Golden path and Engineering standards.
Process Improvement: Establish faster feedback loops and drive systematic improvements to development practices to reduce "Blocked Time" per ticket.
Strategic Alignment: Ensure all technical work aligns with the long-term Architectural Vision and product outcomes rather than just output. Adapts to priority shifts and changing Product direction. Strong focus on measurable value creation via Engineering efforts.
Mentorship & Leadership: Provide technical guidance to junior engineers, championing best practices through "Lightning Talks" and detailed documentation.

Benefits

Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
401(k) with employer match
100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
Monthly wellness allowance
Annual professional and personal development allowance
Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
Flexible work location opportunities
Employer matching toward charitable contributions