Staff Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 08, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Providing technical leadership for Flow's end-to-end data path, the full-time Staff Software Engineer will own major architectural decisions, lead complex projects, and solve reliability and data-consistency challenges while remaining hands-on in the codebase.
Key responsibilities
- Set technical direction for significant areas of Flow, including migration engines and CDC pipelines
- Lead the design and delivery of large, complex, release-defining projects from problem definition through production rollout
- Drive root-cause analysis for customer-impacting issues and ensure durable fixes and improvements
Required qualifications
- Significant professional experience building and operating production software, typically 10+ years
- Expert-level experience with Java and debugging complex enterprise-grade codebases
- Strong understanding of databases and data-intensive systems, particularly MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Hands-on experience with Change Data Capture or comparable streaming technologies
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
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