At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical strategy and mentor engineers while tackling complex challenges.
- Company: Join Epsilon, a global leader in data and technology for marketing.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible work options, extra leave, and wellness programs.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive culture with endless growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on innovative projects and drive industry-leading solutions.
- Qualifications: Expertise in software engineering and cloud infrastructure required.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
Overview
Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, the Senior Staff Software Engineer shapes technical strategy across the engineering organisation. While this is predominantly a hands-on role, you'll also define the standards and patterns that teams build on, tackle the hardest cross-cutting technical challenges, and serve as a key technical voice in organisational decisions. Your influence extends beyond your immediate domain - you help set the direction for how the organisation builds and operates its platform.
What You’ll Achieve
- Define and drive technical strategy across multiple domains and teams
- Lead the design and delivery of the most complex, high-impact technical initiatives
- Establish engineering standards, patterns, and practices adopted organisation-wide
- Mentor Staff and Lead engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence
- Evaluate and recommend technology choices and platform investments
- Partner with engineering leadership to align technical strategy with business objectives
- Drive improvements to system reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
- Represent the organisation’s technical capabilities in cross-functional and external forums
Who You Are
What you’ll bring with you:
- Deep expertise in multiple technology domains (frontend, backend, infrastructure, data)
- Experience with Cloud Computing infrastructure and architecture (e.g. AWS/Google Cloud)
- Extensive experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems
- Proven track record of driving technical strategy across multiple teams
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience influencing engineering culture, standards, and technical decision-making at an organisational level
- History of successfully delivering complex, cross-cutting initiatives from conception to production
- Champion and model adoption of AI tools across the organisation
Highly Regarded:
- Experience designing systems for high availability and global scale
- Experience with platform engineering and developer experience at an organisational level
- Experience with technical due diligence, architecture reviews, or advisory roles
- Track record of mentoring engineers into Lead and Staff roles
- GCP Experience
- Deep Expertise with Go or Java
- Kubernetes, Terraform or other IaC frameworks.
Desirable
- Background in Ad Tech, Retail Media, e-commerce, or recommendation systems
- Experience with real-time bidding, auction systems, or high-throughput data pipelines
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical publications
Additional Information
Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers.
Our pillars aren't just words. They're how we show up every day:
- People centricity: We focus on employee well-being in an environment where colleagues truly care about each other.
- Collaboration: We work together, support one another, and collectively achieve goals.
- Growth: There are endless opportunities for growth through learning, development and career advancement.
- Innovation: We drive progress through cutting-edge solutions and forward-thinking approaches.
- Flexibility: We’ve created a balance between work and personal life, and we encourage adaptability to solve problems creatively.
Our values guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers:
- Act with integrity
- Work together to win together
- Innovate with purpose
- Respect all voices
- Empower with accountability
As an Epsilon employee, you deserve perks and benefits that put you and your wellbeing first. Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings, including but not limited to the following:
- Time to recharge: Additional 5 days annual leave each year after 2 years
- Family Wellbeing: Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks paid primary carer leave and generous secondary carer benefits based on service
- Plus additional 5 days paid carer leave to care for your little ones without having to dip into your personal leave
- Work Your World program: enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
- Rewards and recognition: Shop our rewards store front when you receive points
- Extra Perks: Hybrid work arrangements, Gym memberships, Learning & Development opportunities, Employee wellbeing programs (all-in-one psychological, medical & safety needs)
*Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms.
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