Staff Software Engineer

This isn't a maintenance job. Nobody's asking you to keep the lights on. You'll be building the thing everything else runs on.

Harrison Clarke is partnering with a fast-growing, venture-backed company in Boston to hire a Staff Backend Engineer. Work on scalability challenges for their ambitious roadmap.

What You'll Build

• High-performance Go services that sit at the center of the product. They'll be built for concurrency, low latency, and real-world scale.
• Cloud-native infrastructure on Kubernetes. You'll shape how services are deployed, scaled, and observed, and set the patterns the rest of engineering follows.
• Data platform. High scale
• The technical direction. As a Staff engineer, you'll make the architecture calls, mentor senior engineers, and work directly with the founders and engineering leadership on what gets built and why.

What You Bring

• Deep Golang expertise. You've shipped and scaled production Go systems and have strong opinions on concurrency, performance, and clean service design.
• Hands-on Kubernetes. You've run real workloads on K8s in production, not just deployed to it.
• Data systems at scale. Streaming, batch pipelines, data lakes, or real-time processing. Experience with tools like Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar is a strong plus.
• 8+ years in backend engineering , with a track record of owning systems end to end.
• A builder's mindset. You do your best work when the whiteboard is blank, and you'd rather ship v1 than inherit v7.

Why This Role

• Greenfield ownership. Your architecture decisions will last for years, and your name will be on the foundation.
• Real scale, early. The data volumes are already serious and growing quickly.
• Staff-level influence with a direct line to leadership, and no layers of process between your ideas and production.
• Meaningful equity in a company backed by top-tier investors, at a stage where your work moves the valuation.
• A strong engineering team in Boston , one of the best tech hubs in the country.