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Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Juniper Square · Engineering
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Remote$265kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead architecture and evolution of Juniper Square's core systems, including distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and the developer platform, with a focus on enabling upmarket up to $100B+ AUM and supporting AI workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the end-to-end systems architecture strategy across services, infrastructure, and developer platform
  • Design frameworks and design patterns that accelerate the work of the engineering org
  • Design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems spanning synchronous APIs, asynchronous workflows, and event-driven architectures
  • Establish standards for service design, API contracts, multi-tenancy, and inter-service communication
  • Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making for high-stakes, cross-cutting initiatives
  • Drive adoption of modern architectures (event-driven systems, platform engineering, infrastructure as code)
  • Design and prototype critical platform and infrastructure components
  • Write production-quality code for complex or high-impact areas
  • Review service designs, infrastructure changes, and performance-critical code paths
  • Troubleshoot performance, scalability, and reliability issues across services, queues, caches, and databases
  • Optimize workloads for latency, throughput, concurrency, and cost
  • Design and architect a scalable cloud platform supporting compute, networking, storage, service orchestration, and deployment across all product lines
  • Build a paved-road developer platform — golden paths, internal tooling, CI/CD, and self-service infrastructure
  • Create reusable platform primitives and internal APIs that product teams can compose rather than rebuild
  • Enable self-service infrastructure for engineering teams through standardized patterns, templates, and platform capabilities
  • Partner with AI workflow teams, product, and security teams to support production AI workloads
  • Design systems for safe agentic execution, including isolation boundaries, resource governance, auditability, and human-in-the-loop controls
  • Ensure reliability, scalability, and resilience of the platform, including high availability, monitoring, and disaster recovery readiness
  • Architect core systems to handle the data volumes and structural complexity of $100B+ AUM managers
  • Define scalability targets and re-architect bottlenecked systems ahead of demand
  • Design enterprise integration surfaces — APIs, bulk data interfaces, and ERP/GL connectivity
  • Meet security, compliance, and operational diligence expectations of the largest PE firms (SSO/SCIM, granular entitlements, audit trails, data residency)
  • Serve as the senior technical voice in enterprise sales and onboarding conversations

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 15+ years in distributed systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
  • Proven experience architecting large-scale, high-availability multi-tenant distributed systems in production
  • Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, containers, service mesh, serverless)
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, consensus, partitioning, idempotency, backpressure, and failure modes
  • Advanced proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or similar; strong systems-level debugging skills
  • Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and modern CI/CD
  • Experience designing event-driven and streaming architectures (Kafka or similar)
  • Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, or paved-road infrastructure at scale
  • Strong understanding of observability practices and SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets, incident management)
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP at production scale
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure security, multi-tenancy, and compliance best practices
  • Ability to operate at both executive and deeply technical levels

Skills

Required:Architecture leadershipDistributed systems designCloud platform & infrastructureDeveloper platform / paved-road infrastructure

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
  • Life insurance
  • Mental wellness coverage
  • Fertility and growing family support
  • Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays
  • Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
  • Retirement saving plans
  • Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
  • Annual professional development stipend
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Over 2,100 GPs across private equity, venture capital, and commercial real estate trust Juniper Square’s connected fund software and services to raise capital more efficiently, reduce operational risk, and deliver a world-class LP experience.

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