Staff Software Engineer

Location Details: Remote, India

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.  

Join Our Team...

This position is for a Staff Software Engineer within GoDaddy’s engineering organization, concentrating on developing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and promoting technical excellence across various teams and projects.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader at the division level. You will impact system design and architecture, as well as how engineering is carried out across teams. This position suits engineers who excel in uncertain environments, like tackling difficult technical problems, and can provide clarity, structure, and delivery for large projects.

Our teams focus on greenfield and open-ended projects that require firm technical ownership, architectural vision, and collaboration across functions. You will assist in establishing engineering standards, support teams through mentoring, and create systems that boost reliability, scalability, and developer efficiency organization-wide.

This role is important for encouraging innovation throughout the engineering organization. It includes promoting AI-assisted development workflows, modern cloud-native methods, and reusable platform features that speed up development across teams.

What you'll get to do...

Technical Execution & Delivery

• Lead delivery of complex engineering initiatives while driving predictable execution and long-term technical quality
• Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems using AWS, PostgreSQL/Aurora, and MongoDB
• Architect and lead greenfield projects from concept to production, bringing structure to ambiguous problem spaces
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across multiple systems and services while improving operational learning across teams
• Evaluate emerging technologies, cloud services, and engineering practices to improve platform scalability, reliability, and efficiency

Architecture & System Design

• Lead architecture and design reviews for complex cross-team systems and platform capabilities
• Drive technical decisions balancing scalability, reliability, extensibility, operational excellence, and cost efficiency
• Establish engineering standards and guidelines across teams within the organization
• Build systems with strong observability practices using cloud-native monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions
• Identify technical risks early and proactively drive mitigation strategies before they impact production systems

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Serve as a reliable technical consultant and subject matter expert for various teams and projects
• Mentor engineers across levels on architecture, system design, engineering guidelines, and career development
• Lead agile ceremonies and drive continuous improvement initiatives across teams
• Foster a strong culture of ownership, accountability, quality, and engineering excellence
• Contribute to the broader engineering community through internal tech talks, working groups, and knowledge sharing

AI Integration & Innovation

• Promote the use of AI-assisted engineering workflows throughout development, testing, documentation, and architecture methods
• Build reusable AI/ML-enabled platforms and engineering patterns that accelerate team productivity
• Promote experimentation with emerging technologies and scalable engineering solutions
• Help establish secure and effective guidelines for AI-assisted software development across teams

Your experience should include...

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade, internet-scale systems
• Strong proficiency in modern backend technologies including GoLang, Python, and Node.js
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across services such as EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS, RDS/Aurora, and IAM
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora and MongoDB including schema design, indexing, and performance optimization at scale
• Verified skill in developing and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems
• Experience deploying observability and monitoring solutions using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code solutions like Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML tooling or LLM-powered capabilities into production engineering workflows
• Strong Agile/Scrum expertise with experience driving engineering process improvements across teams
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, greenfield environments while driving technical direction and execution
• Demonstrated technical leadership influencing projects, teams, and engineering outcomes beyond individual ownership

You might also have...

• Frontend or full-stack experience with React
• Experience with performance and load testing software such as k6, Locust, or JMeter
• Experience contributing to engineering-wide standards or platform initiatives
• Public technical contributions through blogs, conference talks, or community participation

Professional Attributes...

• Strong ownership approach with the ability to influence technical direction across teams
• Excellent problem-solving and systems-thinking capabilities
• Strong communication and collaborator management skills across technical and business teams
• Passion for guiding engineers and expanding engineering excellence throughout the organization
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for innovation, experimentation, and emerging technologies

We've got your back... We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth.

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all.GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products-period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day-focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

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