# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Broccoli AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/broccoli-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** System Design, AI Agents, Real-Time Voice, Integrations, Workflows, Scalability, Performance Optimization, Reliability Engineering
**Posted:** 2025-12-18

> Staff engineer owns architecture for AI agents, real-time voice, integrations, and workflows at scale. Defines technical strategy, solves high-impact problems across the stack, and mentors the team. Requires 8+ years building complex systems.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Own architecture across critical systems (**AI agents**, **real-time voice**, **integrations**, **workflows**)
- Define technical strategy that enables speed today and scale tomorrow
- Solve high-leverage problems across the stack—**performance**, **reliability**, **correctness**
- Partner closely with product and leadership to shape long-term direction
- Uplevel the entire engineering team through design reviews, mentorship, and standards

## What You’ll Bring
- **8+ years** of experience building and scaling complex systems
- Strong track record of solving ambiguous, high-impact technical problems
- Deep understanding of **system design**, tradeoffs, and scalability
- Ability to balance long-term architecture with short-term execution
- High standards for quality, but pragmatic about speed

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