Depot - Staff Software Engineer

• Staff-level product engineering judgment across backend behavior, API shape, data model, UI flow, and operational reality. • Experience owning meaningful projects from ambiguity to production, including sequencing, tradeoffs, rollout, and follow-through. • Strong technical depth in backend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling systems. • Excellent debugging instincts across application code, APIs, databases, background jobs, cloud infrastructure, observability, and third-party integrations. • Developer empathy for clear APIs, intuitive CLIs, useful docs, actionable errors, and workflows that feel fast and trustworthy. • High emotional intelligence: you communicate clearly, handle disagreement constructively, and help a remote team make better decisions. • Typically this comes from 7+ years of production engineering experience, or equivalent depth in product, platform, infrastructure, or developer tools. Helpful background includes CI systems, GitHub Actions, build tooling, Docker/BuildKit, remote caching, auth/SSO, billing, or observability. • Direct experience with our specific stack is a bonus, but not required: TypeScript, Go, React, protobuf/gRPC-style APIs, MySQL/PlanetScale, ClickHouse, AWS, and OpenTelemetry. • Depot is fully remote and distributed across the US, Canada, and Europe. We rely on clear writing, async collaboration, and people who can create clarity without waiting for perfect instructions. • We are a small team trying to do unusually ambitious work. Ownership matters here: you make choices, own outcomes, and share what you learn when those choices work or do not. • Work is not family. We care about excellent work and meeting commitments, and we also expect people to have real lives outside of Depot. • We make decisions with customer context and data. Strong opinions are useful; clear evidence and good judgment are better. • Equal opportunity