Staff Software Engineer
Stream, San Francisco, California
The role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll lead the highest-leverage backend projects at Stream—architecting core services, setting technical direction, and mentoring the team through strong standards and reviews.
You’ll turn ambiguous problems into reliable production systems. That includes defining success metrics, validating solutions with data, and building the infrastructure that makes AI-assisted workflows safe, fast, and maintainable over time.
This role is based in our San Francisco office (Mission District) and is in person four days per week.
What you will do
- 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.