Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for an internal platform that provides operational visibility into high-volume fund movements. Drive AI-first tooling, build fault-tolerant search and remediation systems, align cross-functionally, and elevate engineering quality through mentorship, design reviews, and process improvements.

The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Payments platform, building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, defining roadmaps, ownership of production reliability, cross-functional partnership, and mentoring engineers to improve platform quality and scalability.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase Payments, building high-availability, low-latency payment rails and funds-flow systems. Drive cross-team initiatives, enforce financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, auditability), improve reliability and cost efficiency using observability data, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and compliance to deliver scalable global payment solutions.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Design and implement high-quality C/C++ embedded avionics software for X-Bat UAVs. Lead cross-functional teams, own features from design to production, integrate firmware and autonomy systems, and develop HIL/virtualized test environments. Produce architecture and test documentation, build CI/test tools, prototype concepts, and ensure reliability, safety, and compliance for aerospace deployments.

Design, develop, and field high-performance Ground Control Station and C2 software using C++/Qt/QML and QGroundControl. Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, define APIs/ICDs, debug integration/latency issues, support field tests, implement post-mission debrief tools, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead architectural strategy and technical vision, mentor engineers, and drive feature development within a remote-first environment.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-first, highly available infrastructure and tooling for Cribl's telemetry platform. Drive automation, reliability, scalability, and API-driven solutions across distributed SaaS systems, and participate in on-call and operational duties.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across teams, driving architectural strategies, scalability, and engineering excellence while mentoring engineers and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

This role involves owning and evolving the backend platform for AI employees, mentoring engineers, optimizing system performance, and driving architectural decisions at Supernal.

Lead the architecture and reliability of a financial data extraction platform, reducing human validation reliance by enhancing accuracy and scalability of systems while leveraging AI-driven solutions.

The Staff Software Engineer will build and scale machine learning systems for personalization, collaborating with teams to enhance project quality and performance.

As a Staff Backend Engineer at FloSports, you'll lead backend development initiatives, focusing on scalable distributed systems, authentication frameworks, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with product teams for technical solutions.

The Staff Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain compliance systems for fraud prevention, managing KYC workflows and regulatory reporting. They will mentor engineers and drive technical strategy while collaborating with various stakeholders.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for Internal Access Management, ensuring secure, auditable authorization across engineering systems. Mentor others and drive adoption of secure identity patterns in cloud environments.

Lead the technical direction of an engineering team, making major technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and improving technical quality through reviews and effective communication.