Staff Software Architect

Job Title: Staff Software Architect

Location: US-Remote

THE OPPORTUNITY:

As a Staff Architect, you will be a pivotal member of our Architecture Team, helping shape the technical vision and strategy for multiple product areas. This role offers the opportunity to make a profound impact on our product, our teams, and our company by leveraging your experience, knowledge, and leadership to guide the development of scalable, reliable, and innovative software solutions.

You will work alongside colleagues who exemplify our core value of ‘Team Over Self’ and have the chance to influence a revolutionary platform that is redefining how sellers sell.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We are seeking a forward-thinking Staff Architect with experience building and leading large-scale high-performing systems. You should bring a tenured, outside perspective to elevate our engineering practices and guide multiple teams in achieving technical and business objectives.

The ideal candidate will:

• Cover the product surfaces supported by two or more teams, demonstrating exceptional expertise in their areas.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, focusing on how components within the supported areas integrate and interact.
• Collaborate with Software Architects to develop long-term technical strategies for the product.
• Carry the vision for the supported areas, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical excellence.
• Understand the technical implications of business requirements and guide teams in creating Feature Development Plans (FDP).
• Review and contribute to FDPs from other teams, offering recommendations to drive consistency and quality across the platform.
• Evaluate tools and techniques best suited for various projects and provide recommendations to architecture leadership.
• Lead a group of Software Architects, fostering their technical growth, coordination, and collaboration.
• Take ownership of monitoring and maintaining the health and performance of assigned areas, including defining Service-Level Objectives and incident management plans.
• Contribute to product-wide initiatives from the Architecture Backlog and ensure alignment across teams.
• Anticipate and address cross-functional needs that benefit the business as a whole.
  

THE TEAM:

Our Salesloft’s Engineering team is composed of seasoned and up-and-coming Software Engineers and Architects who are all aligned on one mission: to redefine the Sales Engagement space and activate the authentic seller in all of us. 

The Engineering team consists of Full Stack engineers, UI Engineers, and Architects who work in all areas of the product, with the opportunity to develop in-depth expertise in an area of the platform. They are also the epitome of our core values - putting the team over self, working with humility and respect, redefining what’s possible, consistently delivering big results, and earning the trust of both customers and colleagues.

THE SKILL SET:

• 10+ years of experience building large-scale web applications.
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience with technologies like Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Golang, React, and Angular.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres (Citus), ElasticSearch, and Kafka.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and architects, fostering technical growth.
• Exceptional communication skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration.
  

WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU’LL:

• Attend Salesloft’s New Hire Orientation, where you will learn our Salesloft story and understand what makes our “Lofters” unique 
• Attend the half day introduction to Salesloft Engineering, where you will get a high level introduction to the architecture of the platform and learn the basic processes of the Engineering Team.
• Begin 1:1’s with your manager, understand your 30-6-90 plan, and be assigned to a development team.
• Set your OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them
• Regularly commit production code

WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Be very knowledgeable of your team(s)’ surface area.
• Be able to take significant ownership for developing a new feature 
• Understand the technical implications of the business requirements and work with your team(s) to develop Feature Development Plans (FDP).

WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Cover the product surfaces supported by two or more teams and demonstrate exceptional level of expertise in the systems that make up your coverage areas.
• Be a major contributor to team planning and execution
• Guide each team’s development efforts focusing on how the components within the team's area work together. Work closely with those teams' Software Architect on long term technical strategy.
• Evaluate the tools and techniques that are best suited for any given project and provide recommendations to architecture leadership.
• Be mentoring support engineers on engineering practices and coding standards
• Achieve the results defined in your first set of OKRs 
  

WHY YOU’LL LOVE SALESLOFT:

At Salesloft, we're not just a company, we're a community built on shared values. 

• Lead With Humility and Respect
• Earn Customer Trust
• Put Team Over Self 
• Redefine What’s Possible
• Deliver Big Results

Salesloft delivers a performance force multiplier for the world’s most demanding companies. Salesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform, delivering the first AI-powered durable revenue engagement model, keeps market-facing teams on top of all buyer signals, with outcomes-driven prioritization so they always act first on what matters most. Thousands of the world’s most successful sales teams, like those at Google, 3M, IBM, Shopify, Square, and Cisco, drive more revenue with Salesloft.

While we’re proud of our history, we’re even more excited about the future. We want to create a world-class culture and company that attracts, develops, engages and retains elite talent.

Since our founding in 2011, we have grown into a global, award-winning organization with Lofters based all over the world. As a testament to our organizational health, we have been named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2021, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2022 Healthiest Employers, three times by Deloitte as a ‘Fastest-Growing Technology Company in North America,’ and have been recognized as a top workplace by Fortune, Glassdoor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Inc Magazine. 

In addition to our stand-out organizational health:

• 2024 Best Places to Work Certified for a fourth consecutive year
• Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Orchestration Platforms for B2B, Q3 2024
• G2 Enterprise Sales Engagement Leader 15 consecutive quarters
• Recognized by Gartner Peer Insights as a Customer’s Choice in 2023 Voice of the Customer for Sales Engagement Applications
• G2 recently ranked us #1 in Enterprise Sales Engagement and we were named a leader in the 2022 Forrester Wave for Sales Engagement.  We received the highest possible score in 26 out of 30 criteria, more than any other vendor evaluated in our category. 

We’re redefining an age-old industry. This is challenging work – but our team of driven innovators makes the journey thrilling. We’re fast-paced, cutting-edge, and collaborative. We pursue excellence in everything we do and have a lot of fun along the way. Come join us!

 WHY SHOULD YOU WORK AT SALESLOFT:

• You will become part of an amazing culture with a supportive CEO and smart teammates who actually care

• You will work with an amazing team you can learn from and teach
• You will experience joining a high-growth/high-trajectory organization
• You will hear “Yes, let’s do that!” and then have the opportunity to successfully execute on your ideas
• You will build community with Lofters of many cultures and backgrounds through ERGs and DEI initiatives
• We have a vibrant, open office that utilizes modern technology
• We firmly believe you will have the opportunity to  grow more here than you would anywhere else

Salesloft is committed to creating a sense of belonging for all Lofters. We integrate representation and inclusion into Salesloft’s core by establishing and meeting specific, time-bound objectives for fair hiring and career growth. We prioritize actionable steps over terminology, and showcase how a genuinely diverse and inclusive culture enhances our financial success and overall performance. 

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Salesloft we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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