Staff Software Engineer

About this role

## Location

New York City

## Employment Type

Full time

## Location Type

On-site

## Department

Engineering

## Compensation

• $190K – $260K • Offers Equity

## Why Moonshot AI?

Imagine websites that rebuild themselves on autopilot to sell more, convert better, and grow faster.

At Moonshot AI, we’re making that happen — merging generative AI, large-scale data pipelines, and experimentation into a self-evolving web.

We’re a well-funded, very early-stage startup with a massive vision. Joining now means you’re not just an employee — you’re helping set the technical and cultural DNA of the company. If you’ve ever wanted the autonomy of a founder with the backing of top-tier investors, this is it.

# What You’ll Build & Lead

As our Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be the technical backbone behind Moonshot’s evolution engine - designing scalable systems, guiding engineering strategy, and mentoring the builders around you.

You’ll balance hands-on depth with architectural altitude, turning vision into technical reality.

You will:

• **Work at the forefront of generative AI and agentic flows** - build systems that let AI autonomously reason, experiment, and deploy real changes to the web.
• **Architect the next generation** of Moonshot’s experiment engine - scalable, observable, fault-tolerant, built for millions of daily events.
• **Design and evolve our backend infrastructure** across Python (Flask-RestX), serverless AWS, and data pipelines (ClickHouse, Postgres, Kinesis, Firehose, S3).
• **Drive technical strategy** - define our engineering principles, evolve architecture across microservices, ingestion, and LLM-driven systems.
• **Mentor and multiply** - uplevel senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design docs.
• **Collaborate cross-functionally** - work with AI, product, and data science to translate business needs into resilient systems.
• **Prototype and push boundaries...