Software Engineer, Software Architect, Cloud Engineer - Software

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer – Platform

Job : 86331

Location: Bend, Oregon / Remote

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a hands‑on, strategic technical leader who helps shape our engineering organization’s direction, capabilities, and culture. You operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise and organizational influence—driving architectural decisions that enable scale, building systems that reduce complexity, and elevating how teams across Vector work together. This role requires you to think beyond individual features or even single teams.

You’ll identify systemic opportunities for improvement, design solutions that create lasting leverage, and partner with engineers at all levels to amplify your impact. You’ll also partner closely with engineering leadership, product, and cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure our technical strategy aligns with business goals and customer needs. This is a high‑impact, high‑visibility, hands‑on leadership role ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex technical, systemic, and organizational challenges, scaling engineering excellence, and shaping how teams deliver value at scale.

• Lead architectural direction across domains and teams, making system‑wide design decisions that unlock future growth, reduce complexity, and address long‑term technical risk
• Anticipate organizational and technical evolution and design systems that enable that evolution
• Guide teams through ambiguity, help set architectural standards, and be an exemplar of systems thinking
• Shape the way teams think about quality by defining and evolving standards, identifying systemic patterns that reduce code health, and taking strategic action
• Reduce the overall debugging burden by improving systems, structures, and diagnostic tooling that minimize time spent identifying and resolving problems

• Act as a strategic product partner, helping define product direction by synthesizing feedback across teams and ensuring technical decisions align with long‑term goals and customer needs
• Influence organizational priorities with deep understanding of customer needs, ensuring decisions deliver exceptional user experiences
• Guide product stability and reliability as strategic initiatives, aligning system resilience with customer trust and business objectives
• Help bring clarity to complex tradeoffs, translating business needs into actionable priorities and uncovering hidden dependencies

• Scale good engineering practices across teams—including testing, code quality, and operational excellence—by identifying gaps and driving cultural change
• Architect simplicity into systems, teams, and processes, building mental models and shared expectations that help others work with clarity and economy
• Create conditions for high‑performing delivery: clear priorities, unblocked paths, healthy rhythms, and visibility into progress

• Model and drive an ownership culture through influence, designing systems that make accountability easier and more consistent across teams
• Model and scale healthy feedback culture beyond your immediate team, embedding feedback loops into systems and decision‑making
• Make and communicate architectural decisions with clear reasoning that balances technical excellence and business pragmatism

• Shape how teams collaborate at scale, creating conditions for healthy collaboration across groups, functions, and time zones
• Act as a steward of organizational trust, anticipating relational friction and creating structures that help people relate across differences
• Lead and support incident response, improving diagnostic processes and shaping practices that reduce recurrence
• Articulate complex technical concepts and strategic vision to diverse audiences (engineers, product, executives, non‑technical stakeholders)
• Build trust and productive relationships across organizational boundaries
• Facilitate difficult conversations and driving alignment in high‑stakes or contentious situations
• Strategic thinking skills that connect…