What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud position at vtex?
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Cloud Platform), you will work at the core of VTEX's infrastructure, leading initiatives that impact all engineering and all our customers globally. You will be one of the team's main technical references, driving architectural decisions, risk mitigation, and technological evolution of one of the largest-scale platforms in Latin America. This role exists to design and operate the future of our infrastructure: scalable, resilient, observable, cost-efficient, and secure. It is a role of extremely high impact and visibility.
RESPONSABILITIES
- Find opportunities and anticipate risks in critical systems — preventing problems from design to production and increasing resilience and reliability.
- Solve complex and ambiguous problems involving multiple systems and services, often spanning different technical domains (e.g., Cloud, Observability, Edge, Networking, Databases, Security).
- Define technical directions for the Cloud domain, influencing standards, practices, and architectural decisions beyond your team, even without formal authority.
- Build the long-term technical vision for critical domains, defining engineering golden paths used across the entire company.
- Balance trade-offs between short and long term, local vs. global, optimization vs. time-to-market.
- Lead cross-team and cross-domain projects, ensuring efficient execution, influencing EMs, PMs, and technical leadership to converge on strategic solutions.
- Act as a bar-raiser, participating in hiring, promotions, and evaluations, helping to elevate the company's technical level.
WHO YOU ARE
- You have solid experience in backend and/or cloud engineering
- You demonstrate technical depth in distributed infra, orchestration, networking, and/or security
- You have a track record of high-impact technical leadership (not just feature ownership)
- You have led and have experience with cross-team projects and alignment with non-technical areas
- You demonstrate the ability to navigate problems with a high degree of uncertainty and large scale
- You have strong communication and influence
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ABOUT VTEX
VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the composable and complete commerce platform that delivers more efficiency and less maintenance to organizations seeking to make smarter IT investments and modernize their tech stack. Through our pragmatic composability approach, we empower brands, distributors, and retailers with unparalleled flexibility and comprehensive solutions, enabling them to invest solely in what provides a clear business advantage and boosts profitability. VTEX is trusted by 2,600 global B2C and B2B clients, including Carrefour, Colgate, Motorola, Sony, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool, having 3,500 active online stores across 43 countries (as of FY ended on December 31, 2023). For more information, visit www.vtex.com.
BENEFITS
- Annual profit-sharing program and equity eligibility
- Health, dental, and life insurance with national coverage provided by VTEX
- Annual budget for professional development in Tech
- Language development incentive program (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
- Flexible meal allowance
- Extended parental leaves
- Child-care assistance
- Flexible work schedule and remote-first culture
- Financial assistance to build your work-from-home setup
- Wellness program
- Free shipping on 1000 VTEX stores
