B12 - Staff Software Engineer

• You enjoy learning and teaching. • You are comfortable working with backend and frontend technologies, but have a deeper background and interest on the backend/infrastructure side. • You care about and want to contribute to our mission of helping people do meaningful work. • What does a staff engineer do here? • Own the delivery of a project of the magnitude “we ship one or two of these a quarter,” both individually shipping code and rallying and supporting team members in doing so. • Participate in quarterly planning to identify key projects to work on next quarter. • Mentor other engineers who are in the planning, prototyping, or implementation phases of a project. • Respond to an incident, write up a postmortem, and improve tooling and infrastructure to help us prevent or more quickly respond to the issue and others like it in the future. • Identify and optimize some infrastructure that costs too much, is too slow, or isn’t stable enough. • Discuss an early design/prototype with a designer or product manager to help shape its direction and explain what will be easy or hard to implement. • Unblock an operational team member on a data analysis project that answers a hairy question facing our business. • Run a brainstorm with engineers to identify how we might work more effectively or ship with a higher level of quality. • We highly favor talent and interest. • Some candidates may see this list and feel discouraged because they don’t match all the items. Please apply anyway: there’s a good chance you’re more wonderful than you think you are. • B12 is a safe place for human beings. We particularly encourage you to apply if you identify as a woman, are a person of color or other underrepresented minority, or are a member of the LGBTQIA community.