Sr. Staff Software Engineer- Eng

8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in lead or staff-level positions. Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or similar languages Ability to leverage AI tools such as Claude Code or Codex to accelerate software development, including generating production-ready code, refactoring existing systems, debugging complex issues, and improving engineering throughput while maintaining code quality, security, and architectural standards. Ability to break ambiguous problems into structured designs and actionable plans. Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams. Deep experience building distributed data systems using GCP services (AWS is also acceptable), including BigQuery, Dataflow (Beam), Dataform, and Pub/Sub. Strong understanding of data modeling, partitioning strategies, schema evolution, and cost-efficient query optimization. Experience designing security-first data pipelines with privacy-preserving transformations. Strong experience integrating data-science workflows or ML/analytical models into production systems. Experience architecting enterprise data lakes, lakehouse platforms, or real-time streaming data systems. Experience enabling machine learning workflows, including feature engineering platforms, model training pipelines, or model deployment infrastructure. Experience working with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets in cloud-based environments. Experience defining data strategy across multiple teams, including metadata management and data lifecycle practices. Experience improving platform reliability through observability, data quality frameworks, and automated validation techniques. Experience mentoring senior engineers, data engineers, or data scientists and influencing technical direction across domains. Experience operating in regulated environments with strong data compliance and audit requirements.