Staff Software Engineer (Console)

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Software Engineer (Console)

• Focus: Technical lead for the Console team and self-serve developer platform

Description

You will set the technical strategy and architecture for Console, Playground, account management services, and agentic developer tooling. You will lead large, high-priority, cross-functional projects from ambiguous idea to launch, while writing a lot of code and building full-stack features. You will also drive technical foundations for the self-serve growth engine—activation, in-product upgrades, usage-based billing instrumentation, and PLG experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy and architecture to scale with product-led growth plans

• Lead cross-functional projects from ambiguous idea to launch; drive key technical decisions and milestones

• Partner with senior leaders on roadmap and AI-native developer experience

• Translate priorities into clear, incrementally releasable work

• Build and ship polished full-stack features (UI plus APIs and backend services)

• Drive the self-serve growth engine: activation funnels, upgrade flows, usage-based billing instrumentation, PLG experimentation

• Shape developer usage of Deepgram through MCP servers, SDK experiences, agent playgrounds, and LLM-powered tooling

• Spot recurring patterns in incidents, tech debt, and delivery problems; surface root causes and own solutions

• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, technical standards, and mentoring

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping customer-facing full-stack web applications

• Experience as a technical lead on large, cross-functional projects with significant business impact

• Strong front-end skills with modern web technologies/frameworks; solid web fundamentals, UX, and product quality

• Solid backend experience in Python, Rust, Go, or similar; ability to design APIs and services for customer-facing products

• Proven ability to drive architectural decisions that scale with products and teams

• Experience partnering with senior leaders on strategy and prioritization; influencing without authority

• Habit of finding root causes, anticipating problems, and delivering durable solutions

• Consistent record mentoring engineers and raising engineering practices

• Comfort with startup realities: build quickly, iterate often, run experiments

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Technical leadership role shaping a product-led, developer-facing platform

• Cross-functional impact on AI-native developer experience and self-serve growth

• Hands-on opportunity to build full-stack features and directly influence adoption