Engineer V - Software at PODS in Clearwater, FL

Job description

• As a Software Engineer V, you set technical direction. You own architecture that spans teams — designing the systems others build within — and you are accountable for technical outcomes delivered through others as well as by your own hands. You define the problems as much as you solve them: turning ambiguous business goals into technical strategy, sequencing multi-quarter initiatives, and making the build-vs-buy and migration calls that shape the platform for years.
• You are still hands-on. You prototype the risky parts, write the critical-path code, and stay close enough to production reality that your designs survive contact with it. And you shape how we test and learn at scale — building platforms where experimentation is cheap, so every team can iterate on price display, communications, chat, and beyond with real customer data.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Ownership: Design and evolve systems spanning team boundaries; define the integration contracts and domain boundaries other teams build against.
• Migration Leadership: Plan and lead incremental, zero-downtime migrations off legacy systems while the business keeps running.
• Technical Risk Management: Identify the riskiest assumptions in a multi-quarter initiative early, and design spikes and milestones that retire them fast.
• Engineering Standards: Own key parts of the software design process, review culture, and production-readiness bar across your domain.
• Hiring Bar: Help design interview loops and calibrate the technical bar for senior hires.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading multi-quarter technical initiatives that spanned multiple teams.
• Distributed Systems: A track record of designing, operating, and evolving distributed systems in production at meaningful scale.
• Cloud Architecture: Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (Azure preferred): microservices, eventing, API design, and the failure modes of each.
• Design Communication: Exceptional written design skills — you can align a dozen engineers through a document.
• Experience as the founding or lead architect of a platform other teams build on.
• Experience with data-warehouse-native experimentation (Snowflake) and observability at scale (Datadog).
• Fluency with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor).

Skills

Required

• Distributed systems design and operation
• Microservices
• Eventing
• API design
• Exceptional written design skills

Preferred

• Observability at scale (Datadog)