What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer position at Glassdoor?
Why Glassdoor?
When you work for Glassdoor, you help people everywhere get ahead in work and life. That's because we're moving fast to become the leading community for workplace conversations. Every day, we foster radical transparency by giving professionals a platform to connect authentically and anonymously. Think real talk with real people - plus company reviews and ratings, salary info, job listings and more.
Join us as we make worklife better, together.
About The Role
It is a transformational time at Glassdoor. As we introduce our community offering to the world our data systems must scale to support the significant increase in engagement with the Glassdoor and Fishbowl products. Therefore, our data platform is also going through a transformational shift that sees the re-architecture and design of every piece of infrastructure from stream and batch processing to our data lake and overall data strategy. The Staff Software Engineer that joins the team will be incredibly valuable in helping us build out the next generation data platform that will support Glassdoor and Fishbowl's many products. This role will report into the Engineering Manager of Data Platform.
What You'll Do
- Introduce best practices in software development across data engineering and machine learning teams, ensuring technical architecture and design decisions support scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- You'll champion a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and technical mentorship within the team while partnering closely with various other teams across the engineering organization.
- You'll set and enforce best practices and standards for the data platform team and ensure that our platform runs smoothly while keeping our cloud environment clean.
- You'll mentor junior and senior engineers, challenging their technical skills to help them grow into well-rounded engineers.
- You'll conduct regular code and architecture reviews for the data platform team championing new approaches and refining older ones to keep us at the cutting edge of technology.
- Introduce a robust data quality strategy aimed to eradicate poor data from making its way into production.
What You'll Bring
Nice to Haves
Compensation and benefits
Base salary range
Glassdoor base salaries are targeted to the market 75th percentile for technical roles and the 65th percentile for non-technical roles. In other words, 65-75% of comparable organizations in our industry will pay less.
Annual bonus target
Generous Restricted Stock Units (RSU) :
Health and wellness : 100% employer-paid premiums for employee medical, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability and select well-being programs, along with 80% employer-paid premiums for all dependents.
Work / life balance : Open Paid Time Off policy, in addition to 15-20 paid company holidays / year.
Investing in your future : 401(k) plan with a company match up to $5,000 per year, subsidized fertility & family planning services and discounted legal assistance services.
Our Commitments
Glassdoor is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran or military status or any other category protected under the law. Glassdoor is an equal opportunity employer; committed to creating a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
Where-to-Work Policy
Being a remote-first company, Glassdoor employees can live anywhere Glassdoor is a registered company. Requests to move must be approved by an employee's manager and the People team. While we will try our best to support relocation requests, some requests may not be approved due to various tax, legal, or other restrictions.
Enjoy Remote and Explore : Employees authorized to work in their current location may Work Away for up to a total of 30 (thirty) working days in a calendar year without permanent relocation and compensation change. Employees on visas may work Work Away for up to a total of 20 (twenty) working days in a calendar year without permanent relocation and compensation change. The amount of time and location for Work Away must be approved by the employee's manager and People Operations team at least two (2) weeks in advance of travel.
Salary : $134,400 - $178,500
