KnowBe4 - Staff Engineer (Remote)

• Backend & Systems — 5+ years scaling production Ruby on Rails applications; expertise in GraphQL (batch loading, complexity management) and relational databases tuning (MySQL/PostgreSQL) for high-traffic, multi-tenant systems • Backend & Systems — • Frontend — Strong proficiency with a modern component framework and strict TypeScript; Vue 3 experience is preferred given our MFE direction, and SvelteKit experience is highly valued for our current codebase (React also translates well); proven ability to lead large-scale front-end work using Vite and Tailwind CSS • Frontend — • Cloud — Deep experience with AWS (ECS/Fargate, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, S3); strong proficiency with Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code and GitLab CI/CD • Cloud — • Distributed Systems — Experience designing event-driven architectures and managing asynchronous processing at scale; sound judgment on eventual consistency, idempotency, and failure handling • Distributed Systems — • Technical Leadership — Demonstrated experience at the Staff level: writing ADRs, driving design across a team, and building for compliance-regulated environments (FedRAMP / SOC 2 / ISO 27001) • Technical Leadership — • AI-assisted development — Comfortable using modern AI coding tools (e.g., Claude / Claude Code) to accelerate delivery, review, and problem-solving; we actively embrace these tools and value engineers who use them thoughtfully to raise both speed and quality, and who help their teams do the same • AI-assisted development — • Preferred / Nice-to-Have • Experience leading a front-end framework migration end-to-end • Deep experience scaling production Rails under real traffic • Serverless background-processing frameworks at scale • DynamoDB / Redis data modeling for high-throughput workloads • Familiarity with compliance-regulated environments (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001) • Track record of integrating AI tooling into team engineering workflows (code generation, review, test scaffolding, automation) • BS or equivalent plus 10 years of experience • MS or equivalent plus 5 years of experience • Ph.D. or equivalent plus 4 years of experience • The salary for this position ranges from $170,000-$190,000, which will vary depending on how well an applicant's skills and experience align with the job description listed above. • Application deadline: 9/22/2026.  This is our good-faith estimate of the date the application window is anticipated to close. KnowBe4 reviews applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close the application window early if a qualified candidate for the position is identified.