Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA$210k - $265k + equityFull-timePosted 9mo ago
About the role
Senior backend-focused engineering role at Stream building AI-powered insurance claims workflows. Lead high-leverage backend projects, architect core services, and mentor the team in a regulated environment. On-site in San Francisco four days a week.
Responsibilities
- Own high-impact initiatives end to end: discovery → requirements → MVP → evaluation → production → monitoring.
- Productionize agentic systems by orchestrating LLM/embedding pipelines with guardrails, caching, retries, evals, and robust failure handling.
- Build and scale core backend services that ingest documents, run workflows, and deliver customer value with low latency and cost.
- Design systems and data models that hold up at scale (DynamoDB/Redshift/S3), with audit trails and easy querying.
- Raise the bar on platform quality: reliability, observability, SLOs, incident response, and strong engineering standards through design docs and reviews.
Qualifications
- 8+ years building backend systems in production (SaaS or data-heavy environments).
- Strong systems thinking: APIs, async processing, data-intensive workloads, resilience under failure.
- Strong Python + AWS experience (or comparable), including serverless/container workloads and data systems (DynamoDB/Redshift/S3).
- Experience shipping AI/ML-powered features (LLMs a plus): evaluation, iteration, real-world edge cases—not just demos.
- Comfort with ambiguity and strong product instincts: turning fuzzy problems into crisp plans using customer context and data.
Skills
Required:AWSPythonDynamoDBServerless
Nice to have:TypeScriptRedshiftMachine LearningRegulated environment / compliance
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Plans: Stream fully covers 100% of the premium for medical, dental, and vision for all full-time employees.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with diverse investment options.
- Paid Parental Leave for all full-time employees.
- Flexible PTO policy for salaried employees.
- In-Office Collaboration: in-person four days per week in Mission District office.
- Compensation and Equity: competitive salaries and meaningful equity for all full-time employees.
- Daily Catered Lunch: lunch on in-office days.
- Team & Culture: monthly team outings and a mission-driven team.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Stream
AI-Powered Medical Document Review for Workers' Comp
Stream enables insurance and adjacent professionals such as lawyers, nurses, and claim adjusters to review medical documents faster and better than ever before.
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