Staff Software Engineer
Moonshot AILarge Language company
New YorkLead
Tencent
Alibaba Group
Meituan
HongShan
National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund
China Mobile
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the technical evolution of Moonshot's AI-driven web evolution engine.
- •As our Staff Software Engineer, you'll be the technical backbone behind Moonshot's evolution engine
- •designing scalable systems, guiding engineering strategy, and mentoring the builders around you.
- •Key Responsibilities Work at the forefront of generative AI and agentic flows
- •build systems that let AI autonomously reason, experiment, and deploy real changes to the web.
- •Architect the next generation of Moonshot's experiment engine
- •scalable, observable, fault-tolerant, built for millions of daily events.
- •Design and evolve our backend infrastructure across Python (Flask-RestX), serverless AWS, and data pipelines (ClickHouse, Postgres, Kinesis, Firehose, S3).
- •Drive technical strategy
- •define our engineering principles, evolve architecture across microservices, ingestion, and LLM-driven systems.
- •Mentor and multiply
- •uplevel senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design docs.
- •Requirements 8+ years of experience designing and shipping production systems at scale (bonus: 0→1 or startup environment).
- •Strong expertise in Python, AWS, and JavaScript
- •you're comfortable owning both backend and frontend architecture.
- •Proven ability to design distributed systems (event-driven, microservices, or data-heavy architectures).
- •You've been a technical lead or staff engineer
- •mentoring peers, reviewing designs, and setting engineering standards.
- •Bias toward action and clarity
- •you simplify, document, and deliver.
- •Deep curiosity about AI and experimentation
- •you love systems that learn and adapt.
- •Bonus: experience with ClickHouse, LLMs in production, or ecommerce/analytics infrastructure.
Required skills
PythonAWSJavaScriptMicroservicesEngineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipMentoring
Nice-to-have skills
LLMs
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Competitive compensation, Meaningful equity, Full health coverage, Unlimited PTO, Tax free commuter and parking benefits, Free One Medical Membership, 401k
Tech stack
PythonAWSJavaScriptFlaskPostgreSQLS3Microservices