Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

GoDaddy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help define and scale our Internal Developer Platform—a centralized system that powers how engineers across the company build, deploy, and operate software. This platform is used by 1,000+ engineers to manage everything from cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle to security, compliance, and cost transparency.

In this role, you'll operate as a technical leader at platform scale, shaping the architecture and direction of systems that directly impact engineering velocity across the company. You'll work on high-impact initiatives such as AI-powered developer tooling, next-generation API platforms, and the evolution of a unified developer experience spanning APIs, CLI, and UI.

This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role where Staff Engineers drive decisions, influence product direction, and partner across infrastructure, security, and platform teams. If you're motivated by building systems that improve how other engineers work—and want to have a measurable impact on developer productivity at scale—this team sits at the center of GoDaddy's engineering ecosystem.

What You'll Get to Do...

• Design and build platform services that power GoDaddy's internal developer ecosystem, used by 1,000+ engineers.
• Lead architecture and technical direction for high-scale APIs, infrastructure orchestration, and metadata systems.
• Develop AI-powered developer tooling, including chat-based and agentic workflows.
• Partner cross-functionally with infrastructure, security, and platform teams to integrate core capabilities.
• Own production systems end-to-end, including performance, reliability, and on-call responsibilities.

Your Experience Should Include...

• Strong backend engineering with Node.js / TypeScript and scalable API design (REST, versioning, contracts).
• Experience building systems on AWS (ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, IAM).
• Full-stack development using React / Next.js.
• Distributed systems fundamentals (data modeling, caching, consistency, system design).
• CI/CD and testing best practices (GitHub Actions, unit/integration testing).

You might also have...

• Experience building or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or developer tooling ecosystem.
• Familiarity with LLM/AI integrations, agentic workflows, or prompt engineering.
• Exposure to ServiceNow / CMDB or enterprise metadata systems.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of security and secrets management (Vault, IAM, compliance practices).

We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn't align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth.

GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that's not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That's why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It's the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

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Compensation & Benefits:

What We Offer:

Working at GoDaddy offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, parental and wellness leave, healthcare, retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.

This role is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k)-retirement plan, paid sick time, paid flexible time off, paid parental leave, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, AD&D insurance, mental health or EAP programs, remote or hybrid work options, paid holidays, paid Wellness days, tuition assistance, adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits, dependent daycare and backup care benefits, Employee stock purchase plan, financial education and advice; and other benefits in accordance with GoDaddy's benefit plans and applicable law.

Actual compensation and benefits eligibility will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Compensation:

The estimated pay ranges for this role are listed below. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for other forms of compensation, which may include a corporate bonus and/or equity awards, subject to the terms of applicable plans and individual eligibility.

Bay Area (Santa Clara, San Francisco) and Los Angeles: $182,000—$273,000 USD Austin, D.C. Metro, CA (non-Bay Area), HI, IL, MA, NH, OR, VA, WA: $157,000—$235,000 USD New York City Metro, Kirkland/Seattle: $166,800—$250,200 USD All other US locations not previously listed: $140,000—$210,000 USD