The Staff Engineer is Nauta’s guardian of scalability: ensuring the whole architecture holds as the company grows: Nauta core, Pangea, and Ask Nauta. This is a technical authority role with no direct reports: influence comes from technical clarity and design quality, not people management.
This role ratifies the connector standard the Integrations Lead authors, owns the quality bar via design reviews, and resolves the hardest cross-team technical problems. The complement: the AI Staff Engineer decides where AI goes; this role ensures what gets built scales.
What you’ll do
- Architect systems that scale reliably across Nauta core, Pangea, and Ask Nauta
- Ratify the connector standard the Integrations Lead authors against platform architecture
- Own the quality bar via design reviews across cross-team initiatives
- Identify and mitigate systemic technical risks before they become incidents
- Improve resilience, observability, and failure recovery across services, in partnership with DevOps
- Lead complex refactors and scalability initiatives that cut across more than one team
- Mentor engineers on system design without formal management responsibility
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Proven track record designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- Deep understanding of failure modes, consistency models, retries, backpressure, and resilience
- Strong experience with integrations-heavy architectures (APIs, async systems, file pipelines)
- Strong SQL and data modeling experience (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience running production systems in AWS or similar cloud environments
- Excellent communication skills in English (C1–C2 preferred)
Nice to have
- Experience with Kotlin and/or Python in production systems
- Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming systems
- Exposure to AI-native systems or LLM-powered workflows in production
About Nauta
Nauta is your AI partner, powered by an AI operational brain. Nauta reads how your company works: your email, your documents, your rules. Then AI agents do the daily work, like reading every document, checking invoices and chasing what’s missing. You stay in control.