Staff Engineer

📋 Description

• Lead design and delivery of multi-system projects
• Architect scalable backend services and data pipelines
• Drive reliability, performance, and long-term sustainability
• Mentor teammates and raise engineering standards
• Collaborate with Product and Build teams to plan work
• Own on-call and incident response responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to Thorn's mission to protect children
• Experience building/operating production backend services with Python
• Production Kubernetes experience for deploying and troubleshooting
• Experience operating services in a production cloud environment
• Strong architectural judgment and tradeoff awareness
• Excellent written communication for a distributed team

🎁 Benefits

• Remote-first work model with occasional travel
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunity to work with a mission-driven team
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