Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

About the role

Who We Are

Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record, enabling organizations to conduct risk assessments, protect against workplace violence, and manage threats and incidents more efficiently. Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies rely on Ontic to support security programs such as executive protection, threat intelligence, and corporate investigations. Learn more at ontic.ai http://ontic.ai or follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/ontic-technologies/.

Who You Are

You are a seasoned full stack engineer who operates as a trusted technical leader across multiple teams and systems. You solve the organization's hardest technical problems, set direction on architecture and engineering practice, and multiply the effectiveness of the engineers around you through mentorship and influence, without needing formal authority to do it.

You embody Ontic’s values: Do Good Above All, Raise the Bar, Lead with Empathy, Walk the Walk, and Keep Moving.

Responsibilities

- Architecture & Strategy: Define and drive technical architecture and strategy for systems that span multiple teams

- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with engineering leaders, product leaders, and teams across the organization on complex, high-impact initiatives

- Technical Leadership: Set technical direction and establish engineering best practices and standards across teams

- Mentorship: Mentor engineers across levels, develop other technical leaders, and raise the technical bar organization-wide

- Complex Problem Solving: Take on the organization's most challenging technical problems, particularly those spanning multiple systems or domains

- Performance, Scalability & Security: Drive improvements to performance, scalability, and security that benefit multiple teams and systems

- Lifecycle Ownership: Own major cross-team initiatives end-to-end, from ideation through long-term operational health

- Innovation: Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and practices that improve engineering effectiveness across the organization

Required Qualifications

- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

- Experience: 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 3 years driving technical architecture or strategy across multiple teams

- Ability to design systems and architecture that scale across multiple teams and products

- Strong command of CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), and DevOps workflows

- Excellent communication and cross-functional influence, including with senior stakeholders