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Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eleven consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.What We Do\nRemote Work WelcomeBe part of a transformative engineering organization shaping how First American builds and delivers world-class AI-native technology products that power the real estate industry. We are looking for exceptional engineers who thrive in ambiguity, influence without authority, and create technical leverage across teams.\nAs a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, driving architecture, engineering standards, and reusable platforms that enable teams to build intelligent software faster, safer, and more consistently. You will partner with engineering leaders, product management, architects, and AI practitioners to solve complex technical challenges that span products and organizations.\nYou will play a critical role in modernizing our platform through cloud-native architecture, shared engineering platforms, and production AI systems that improve both customer outcomes and engineering velocity.\nWhat You'll Do:\nDrive Cross-Organization Technical Strategy\nLead technical initiatives that span multiple teams, products, and domains. Define architectural direction, align engineering organizations around common approaches, and guide long-term technical investments that improve organizational scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.\nNavigate ambiguity, resolve competing priorities, and build consensus across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.\nBuild with AI\nDesign and evolve the AI development practices and help drive the creation of AI powered products for our\nAI is not just transforming how we build, it changes what we build. We are looking for a Staff Engineer who can help mentor teams on both.\nArchitect Complex Distributed Systems\nDefine architecture for large-scale, distributed systems spanning multiple services, domains, and business capabilities.\nDrive architectural consistency around:\nAPIs\nevent-driven systems\ncloud infrastructure\nreliability\nsecurity\nobservability\noperational excellence\nSimplify complex systems through thoughtful abstractions and reusable patterns.\nRaise the Engineering Bar\nEstablish engineering standards that improve software quality across the organization.\nLead architectural reviews, influence design decisions, and help engineering teams make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, simplicity, scalability, reliability, and cost.\nChampion modern engineering practices including AI-assisted software development, automated testing, observability, continuous delivery, and platform engineering.\nMentor Technical Leaders\nMultiply the effectiveness of senior engineers and technical leads through coaching, architectural guidance, and design mentorship.\nHelp engineers grow their system thinking, technical judgment, and decision-making while creating an engineering culture centered on curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement.\nDrive Operational Excellence\nLead initiatives that improve organizational reliability, resiliency, security, and operational maturity.\nDefine engineering patterns for:\nobservability\nproduction diagnostics\nAI evaluation\nlatency budgets\ncost optimization\nincident response\nresiliency\ngovernance\nEstablish measurable engineering standards that improve the health of production systems over time.\nCollaborate Across the Organization\nPartner closely with engineering leadership, product management, solution architecture, security, platform engineering, infrastructure, and AI practitioners to translate business strategy into scalable technical solutions.\nInfluence decisions through technical expertise, data, and strong communication rather than organizational authority.\nWhat You'll Bring:\n8+ years of experience designing and building production software systems, including significant experience leading large-scale technical initiatives\nDemonstrated experience driving architecture across multiple teams, services, or business domains\nDeep experience building cloud-native distributed systems using modern software engineering practices\nExperience designing and operating production AI systems, including LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows\nStrong experience creating reusable engineering platforms, frameworks, libraries, or shared infrastructure adopted across multiple teams\nExpertise designing APIs, event-driven architectures, and highly available distributed systems\nExperience establishing engineering standards, architectural patterns, and operational best practices across organizations\nDemonstrated experience leading technical direction through influence rather than direct management\nDeep understanding of AI operational concerns including evaluation strategies, model selection, latency optimization, cost management, observability, governance, and safety\nExperience designing AI development workflows that improve engineering productivity through responsible use of AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar\nStrong understanding of software architecture, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and platform design\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences\nProven ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering organizations through coaching and technical leadership\nStrong systems thinking with an outcome-oriented mindset focused on creating durable organizational leverage\nIdeally, You'll Also Have Experience With:\nEnterprise AI platforms (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks)\nC# (.NET), Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar languages\nKubernetes, Docker, and modern platform engineering practices\nInfrastructure as Code using Terraform, CDK, or similar tooling\nObservability platforms including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar\nLarge-scale platform modernization or cloud migration initiatives\nHighly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, or similar\n#ST2\nPay Range: $148,600.00 - $198,200.00 AnnuallyThis hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **\nFirst American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).\nFirst American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.\nWhat We Offer\nBy choice, we don’t simply accept individuality - we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. 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