Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Staff Software Engineer role is onsite in Washington, DC; the posting also lists Colorado Springs, CO, Dallas, TX, and Salt Lake City, UT, with remote work for DC-, Dallas-, and Salt Lake City-based roles until offices are established. The posting lists a Colorado salary range of $150,000–$210,000; compensation for other locations is not specified. Bluestaq builds secure data platforms for space missions, national defense, healthcare systems, and commercial innovation. This engineer leads technical initiatives across teams to improve architecture, reliability, security, and engineering practices. The role aligns engineering groups around shared designs and standards, addresses systemic technical risks, and coaches Staff and Senior engineers to strengthen organization-wide delivery and quality.

What you'll do

• Lead multi-team engineering efforts, including re-architectures and platform capabilities
• partner with program leadership and product management
• design and implement large-scale architectures and integrations
• address performance, scalability, reliability, and security tradeoffs
• improve testing, observability, CI/CD, coding standards, and security
• harmonize patterns and tooling
• coach Staff and Senior engineers
• lead initiatives from concept through rollout.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior staff software engineer

full-time

washington dc

colorado springs co

dallas tx

salt lake city ut

bluestaq

distributed systems

platform architecture

ci/cd

security

ts/sci may be required

$150k–$210k colorado

remote until office established

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Employer-paid health, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
• 401(k) match and profit share
• annual performance bonus eligibility
• life and disability coverage
• professional development budget
• PTO and paid holidays
• pet insurance
• onsite gym
• flexible schedule.

Why this role

The posting says the position may require an active TS/SCI clearance and that eligible candidates may be sponsored through the clearance process based on program needs. Relocation assistance is available for full-time positions.

About the employer

Bluestaq US External is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.