# Senior Staff Software Engineer- Remote (US Based)
**Company:** [Dispel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/dispel)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $150K-$169K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Python, Go, AWS, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Networking, Vpcs, Vpn, DNS, Firewalls, Github Copilot
**Posted:** 2026-05-12
> Leads large-scale technical initiatives across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, networking, and secure systems at IC6 level. Mentors engineers, drives architecture decisions, and ensures scalability, reliability, and security for customer-critical platforms. Requires 8+ years experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.
## Job Description
## What You’ll Do

### Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from architecture and planning through implementation and delivery.
- Drive technical decision-making for systems that span application, infrastructure, networking, and cloud environments.
- Contribute to architectural direction, scalability planning, reliability improvements, and operational maturity across the platform.
- Debug and resolve complex production and infrastructure issues across distributed systems.
- Partner with engineering leadership to evolve development practices, testing strategies, deployment workflows, and operational standards.
- Produce technical proposals, architecture documents, and implementation plans that align teams around execution.

### Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, system design discussions, and collaborative problem solving.
- Help raise engineering quality through thoughtful feedback, documentation, and strong technical execution.
- Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable customer outcomes.
- Communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.

## Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of leading complex technical projects involving multiple engineers.
- Strong proficiency in software development across multiple languages and paradigms.
- Comfortable using coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) as part of your daily workflow.
- Solid understanding of network architecture including routing, switching, VPN protocols, DNS, and firewalls.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud networking constructs such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, transit gateways, and private endpoints.
- Experience working with distributed systems including databases, caches, queues, event-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical efforts and drive projects through ambiguity to delivery.
- Experience creating technical designs, architecture proposals, and implementation documentation.

## Depending on Your Background, You May Have Strength In One Or More Areas

### Full Stack
- Proficient in TypeScript and modern web development.
- Comfortable contributing across frontend and backend systems.

### Backend
- Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience building and maintaining complex, production-grade APIs and services.
- Strong understanding of execution environments and infrastructure-aware application design.

### DevOps / Infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud-native deployment patterns and containerized environments.
- DevEx experience is a plus.

### Networking
- Experience designing or operating secure networking infrastructure, VPN systems, or remote access platforms.
- Strong understanding of networking and security best practices.

## Bonus Points
- Strong judgment around reliability, security, privacy, and operational resilience in production systems.
- Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, IEC 62443, or similar.
- Previous startup or high-growth company experience.

## Benefits
- $150,000-169,000 salary range
- 401(k) w/ company match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Parental leave
- Full medical, dental, vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health savings account
- Performance bonus and equity eligible
- Remote work
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