Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Overview

In this role, you will design, build, and operate high-throughput, multi-tenant services. You'll lead architecture and implementation of resilient, secure distributed systems, set engineering standards, and mentor teams to deliver high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design
• Lead end-to-end design of resilient, secure, and scalable distributed systems.
• Define and evolve service architectures, interfaces, and platform standards.
• Produce design docs with clear trade-offs, assumptions, and risk mitigation.
• Engineering Excellence
• Raise the bar on reliability, performance, security, and testability.
• Ensure high code quality through reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Drive performance profiling, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Delivery & Operations
• Own service SLIs/SLOs; implement monitoring, alerting, and runbooks.
• Lead major projects and phased rollouts with measurable outcomes.
• Use metrics to manage large server fleets and complex compute systems; automate wherever possible.
• Leadership & Collaboration
• Set technical direction and goals for impact, quality, and efficiency.
• Mentor and onboard engineers; cultivate a learning and safety culture.
• Partner with product, security, SRE, data, and customer teams to refine requirements via tight, data-driven feedback loops.
• Compliance & Policy
• Rigorously adhere to confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and internal policy requirements in all aspects of design, development, and operations.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon policies, procedures, and mission.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: 12+ years in software engineering with deep experience in full-stack or platform development for high-scale, distributed systems (virtualization, multi-tenant, high-performance computing) with health care systems.
• Architecture & Systems: Strong background in system design, security fundamentals, reliability engineering, and automation.
• Programming & Frameworks: Expertise with .NET 8/C#, Node.js, Angular 18+ and scripting languages (Python, TypeScript)
• Cloud & DevOps: Production experience on AWS; Azure DevOps for CI/CD; infrastructure as code and modern observability practices.
• Data & Storage: SQL Server 2022, Snowflake, PostgreSql; schema design, performance tuning, and data reliability.
• Quality: Test automation (e.g., Selenium, unit/integration/e2e), blue/green or canary rollouts, monitoring, and proactive stability improvements.
• Virtualization/Containers: Hands-on with virtualization/containerization and orchestrated environments.
• Problem Solving: Expert, creative troubleshooter with a bias for elegant, maintainable solutions; calm under pressure; strong written and verbal communication.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).