Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

IREN

. Own technical direction for an area spanning several teams over a multi-year horizon .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • United StatesLead💰 $184,000 - $276,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep expertise in software engineering with a focus on distributed systems, databases, and data engineering. Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams and coach engineers while owning production systems and ensuring operational excellence.

Highest-signal resume keywords

10+ Years Software Engineering ExperienceDeep Expertise in Distributed SystemsTechnical Influence Beyond Own TeamExperience Coaching Engineers at ScaleExcellent Written Communication Skills

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Hard Skills

Design Document WritingCode ReviewDebugging Production IssuesTechnical Standards DevelopmentPrototypingIncident ResponseHigh-Volume Data PipelinesMachine Learning DeploymentData EngineeringNetworking

Soft Skills

Customer-Centric ApproachComfort with AmbiguityJudgment in Technical Decisions

Industry Keywords

Technical DirectionOrganizational SlownessCross-Team CollaborationOpen-Source ContributionsPublished WorkDomain Expertise

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own technical direction for an area spanning several teams over a multi-year horizon
Raise engineers' level across the organisation through design and architecture reviews, pairing, and educational writing
Deliver large initiatives by developing the engineers who build them
Address cross-team problems that no single team owns, including un-escalated issues
Write design documents and technical standards used by other teams
Serve as the company's domain expert and make that expertise available
Prototype to resolve open questions using evidence
Write and review code, debug production issues, and carry the pager for owned systems
Identify and fix technical causes of organisational slowness
Partner with engineering managers and product on planning, sequencing, and stopping work when appropriate

Requirements

What you’ll need

10 or more years of professional software engineering experience, several at senior level or beyond
Deep expertise in at least one domain such as distributed systems, databases and storage, networking, data engineering, or applied AI systems
Record of technical influence beyond your own team, with outcomes dependent on people you did not manage
Experience coaching engineers at organisational scale
Evidence of multi-year technical judgement and sustained impact of technical direction
Excellent written communication and design-document writing skills
Experience owning production systems, including operations, on-call, and incident response
Customer-centric approach and discipline to validate that designs improve users' work
Comfort with ambiguity and judgement to determine when something should not be built
Experience at a quickly scaling company where architecture evolved with growth (nice to have)
Experience with high-volume data pipelines, streaming systems, or telemetry and time-series data (nice to have)
Experience deploying machine learning or LLM systems to production (nice to have)
Experience working close to physical infrastructure and hardware failure considerations (nice to have)
Open-source contributions, published work, or domain talks (nice to have)
Must be authorized to work in the United States

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual performance incentives
Equity programs / long-term incentive
Relocation or living-out allowance / per diem, based on circumstances
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees
75% company-paid health coverage for dependents
Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage
Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with the High Deductible Health Plan
Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources
401(k) retirement plan with company match
Financial planning and legal services
Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays
Internal skills training and advancement pathways
Professional development for certifications, continuing education, or role-related training
Company events and team-building activities