Dispel is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own the full arc of our most consequential technical initiatives, from architecture and planning through coordination and delivery. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, networking, and on-premises virtualization.
What You'll Do
- Own design, planning, estimation, testing, and coordination for team projects spanning multiple quarters.
- Understand the broad architecture of Dispel's entire system and produce comprehensive architecture diagrams, technical proposals, and design documents.
- Evaluate major architectural tradeoffs across performance, scalability, security, maintainability, and engineering velocity.
- Deliver complex systems on time and on budget, taking personal responsibility for the risks associated with your team's work.
- Debug and resolve the most difficult technical problems Dispel encounters, including issues that span software, infrastructure, and network layers.
- Determine and own the testing strategy for your team, ensuring appropriate coverage and quality across all layers of the stack.
- Write software that sets the quality standard — clear, maintainable, well-tested, and designed to last.
- Coordinate with other teams on cross-cutting technical issues, including infrastructure, security, and network architecture.
- Provide technical advice that shapes decisions across the engineering organization.
- Identify and communicate technical risks early and drive mitigation across team boundaries.
- Make other engineers better through substantive proposals, reviews, architectural guidance, technical documentation, and direct mentorship.
- Determine the methods and procedures used by your team and continuously improve them.
- Communicate effectively within and outside of the engineering organization — from technical peers to executive stakeholders.
- Actively work to refine your team's approach to security, reliability, privacy, and compliance.
- Champion operational excellence and ensure the systems your team ships are observable, maintainable, and resilient.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of leading team 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: routing, switching, VPN protocols, DNS, and firewalls.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms — AWS and/or Azure — including networking constructs such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, transit gateways, and private endpoints.
- Experience with on-premises virtualization: hypervisors (ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, or similar), VM lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated ability to own cross-team projects and navigate organizational complexity to deliver results.
- Experience producing technical proposals, architecture documents, and system designs that inform and align diverse stakeholders.
- Proven track record of setting team-level engineering standards and driving their adoption.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: databases, caches, queues, event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
Nice to Have
- Strong judgment around security, reliability, privacy, and compliance in production systems — ideally in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to Dispel's customers: FedRAMP, SOC 2, IEC 62443, or similar.
Technical Stack
- Languages: TypeScript, Python, Go
- Cloud: AWS, Azure
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Hypervisors: ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $194,000 – $216,000 + equity eligibility.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Parental leave.
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life insurance and disability insurance.
- Health savings account.
- Performance bonus eligible.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position.
Dispel is an equal opportunity employer.
