# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Rokt](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rokt)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $470k – $615k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Go, Scala, Java, C#, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, iceberg, trino, LLMs, AI Tools, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-23

> Lead architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, high-throughput services powering Rokt's ecommerce platform (10B+ transactions/year). Requires 10+ years building and operating internet-scale distributed systems with deep expertise in at least one area (backend, data engineering, MLOps, SRE, or frontend SDKs).

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

**Technical**
- Own the architecture, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of high-throughput, low-latency services in languages like Go, Scala, Java, C#, or TypeScript.
- Drive systemic performance optimisations and refactors that improve reliability, latency, and cost across multiple services or teams.
- Lead root cause analysis on complex, cross-system production incidents, and drive the engineering response that prevents recurrence.
- Own architectural decisions and lead system design reviews across teams, ensuring solutions scale as transaction volume and traffic grow.
- Research and leverage AI tooling, LLMs, and agents to automate manual processes, accelerate learning, and lift developer productivity across the org.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing through tech talks, brown bags, and best practice evangelism.

**Leadership**
- Act as technical and project leader across a group of engineers spanning one or more teams.
- Provide leadership on complex technical issues, unblocking teams and de-risking high-stakes delivery.
- Set standards for technical excellence, from coding to architectural best practices.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and support their growth toward technical leadership.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering and product leadership to plan and manage delivery expectations of roadmap items.
- Actively monitor progress and intervene where required to mitigate risks and bottlenecks, managing expectations within and outside the team.

## Requirements
- Relevant bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) and 10+ years in commercial software development, designing, building, and operating distributed systems in modern languages like C#, Go, Java, Scala, or TypeScript.
- Track record of owning system architecture and driving delivery in a high-throughput, low-latency production environment at internet scale, with your own designs having gone to production and been operated at scale.
- Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker/Kubernetes).

Deep expertise in at least one of the following:
- High-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. Designing and operating internet scale backend services and APIs, with versioning, performance, scalability, and reliability treated as first-order concerns.
- Data engineering. Building and scaling ingestion and storage on open-source foundations like Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Iceberg, and Trino. Owning data systems that stay correct and queryable as volume grows by orders of magnitude.
- MLOps. Building the infrastructure that lets ML move from notebook to production: feature and data access at scale, model management & training, deployment, and the tooling ML Applied Scientists depend on to ship and iterate.
- Site Reliability Engineering. Owning the operational surface of high-traffic systems: observability, anomaly detection, incident response, and automations that keep on-call sustainable as the network grows. Owning and Administering cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation and orchestration tools.
- Web & Mobile front-end & SDKs. Building and refining Rokt's Web and Mobile Software Development Kits for performance, security, and seamless integration across thousands of partner environments.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience researching and leveraging AI tooling, LLMs, and agents to automate processes and improve developer productivity.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Target total compensation ranges from $470k - $615k, comprised of a fixed annual salary of $290k - $360k, plus employee equity plan grant.
- Equity in a profitable, fast-growing company approaching $1 Billion in revenue.
- Dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan (up to 4% of fixed annual remuneration).
- Fully funded health insurance (Dental, Optical, and Medical).
- Generous allowances for wellness, technology, mobile, and transit.
- Daily catered lunch, stocked pantry & fridges.
- Dog-friendly offices.
- Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.).

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