Senior Staff Software Engineer - Pathstream

Sr. Staff Software Engineer

Pathstream | Engineering | Remote

ROLE / DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

Pathstream is seeking an experienced Sr Staff Software Engineer to operate as a senior technical leader on the engineering team, accountable for the most ambiguous, highest-leverage technical work across our platform. This is a hybrid role reporting to the SVP of Engineering: you will operate as a hands-on Sr Staff engineer and as the direct manager of two mid-level engineers.

We are looking for someone who has already built a strong foundation as a senior engineer in one or more critical domains, and who now brings the maturity, range, and ambition to set technical direction across teams — shaping architecture, raising the bar on quality and security, and accelerating the engineers around them, including those they directly manage.

A core expectation of this role is the ability to advance Pathstream 's AI-native engineering practices. AI adoption is already deeply embedded in how we build software at Pathstream . We are looking for a technical leader who not only embraces this approach but actively pushes the organization forward in building, evaluating, and deploying AI-enabled development tools and agentic engineering workflows. Both as a hands-on practitioner and as a force-multiplier for engineers across the org.

WHAT WE DO

Pathstream was founded on the premise that substantial unrealized economic and human potential exists within each organization's frontline workforce. We are reshaping the way employees and managers on the frontlines excel in their careers. In this age of rapid tech evolution, our enterprise partnerships transform frontline teams from transactional to relational, and from task-oriented to strategic.

We impact companies' bottom lines with improved productivity, increased retention, and differentiated quality of customer experience, while employees experience greater success in their current roles and unlock future professional growth.

We're a tight-knit, hardworking, mission-driven team of ~60 employees eager to scale our solution and transform the careers of our customers.

THE ROLE

TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & ARCHITECTURE

• Set technical direction across multiple domains of Pathstream 's platform and shape architecture decisions that span service and team boundaries. Produce the technical documentation that lets your team learn from and execute.
• Own the most complex, ambiguous, and consequential technical work in your domain end-to-end: greenfield service design, large refactors, new platform capabilities, and unprecedented problems with no clear playbook.
• Anticipate systemic risks across the platform before they surface, scalability ceilings, data-flow brittleness, security posture, cross-service contracts and drive resolution.
• Operate