Senior Staff Engineer (Founding Team)

We’re Hiring: Senior Staff Engineer (Founding Team)! Looking for a role that fosters collaboration, creativity and career growth in a vibrant office environment? We got you covered! We are currently on the lookout for a Senior Staff Engineer (Founding Team) to join our team at Cloudstaff, the #1 workplace everywhere! Think you qualify for the role? Attach a 1-2 minute video intro and introduce yourself to us so we can meet you virtually. Attach this together with your updated CV to become a priority applicant! Role : Senior Staff Engineer (Founding Team) Work Arrangement : Work from Home Location : India Schedule : Night shift Job description: Key Responsibilities: Ten-plus years of professional software development. The founding weight of the role, the 2–5 year commitment, and the breadth of year-one ownership do not fit a less experienced engineer. Production Azure architecture you can walk through. You have personally architected and shipped at least one production system end-to-end on Azure. App Service or Container Apps, Functions, Azure SQL or Cosmos DB, AI Search, Entra ID, Key Vault, Bicep or Terraform. You can name the services you chose, the trade-offs you made, what failed, and what you did. Certifications without a system behind them are not signal. Shipped production AI. Not a hackathon project. A real system, with real users, that you took from design through production and lived with. You know prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, function calling, context management, and basic evaluation patterns from practice, not from reading about them. End-to-end ownership across the layers. You work across frontend, API, data, and infrastructure. Breadth across all of it, real depth in at least one. You write the code, you write the CI/CD pipeline, you write the infrastructure-as-code modules for what you ship, you own the observability and the on-call. Engineers who hand off to a platform team, an SRE team, or an ops team are not a fit. M&S does not have those teams. Ownership under ambiguity. Year one is largely unspecified. You will be handed vague problems and asked to turn them into shipped systems. You make calls where the requirement is fuzzy, the vendor docs are wrong, and leadership cannot make the technical decision for you. You make pragmatic decisions and stand behind them. You will be wrong sometimes, and you recover. You do not wait for direction you are not going to get. Written-first communication. Most work is async with US Central. Clear writing about technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks matters more than verbal polish. Commitment. This is a 2–5 year role. The integration work, the firm context, and the team-building all compound. Resume-padding engineers will not produce what this seat requires. Background in CPA, accounting, professional services, or legal/financial-services ERP integration is a significant advantage. So is experience defining technical standards, documentation, and engineering culture from scratch. So is an appetite to step into mentorship and technical leadership as the team grows. None of those replace the floors above. Non-negotiable skills and requirements: 10+ years of professional software development. That's a floor, not a preference. Has architected one production system end-to-end on Azure . You should be able to walk through the services they chose, the trade-offs, and what failed in production. Certifications on their own aren't enough. Has shipped at least one production LLM-backed system (an agent, a RAG pipeline, or an LLM integration) with real users. End-to-end ownership across the layers . Writes the code, deploys it, writes the IaC, owns the observability and the on-call. Not someone who hands off to a platform, SRE, or ops team. M&S doesn't have any of those. Willing to overlap 4 to 5 hours daily with US Central . Perks & Benefits: Comprehensive health and life insurance on your 16th day of employment, covering 1 free dependent on the 16th day of employment Flexible leave credits which may be used for vacation, emergency and sick leaves Quarterly perks boxes for WFH staff, offering groceries and snacks to keep you fueled Superb and exciting Mid-Year Parties – with items to give away and cash prizes! Endless opportunities for career advancement Annual Performance Review with Salary Increase We set you up for success with a company-provided PC/Laptop and fiber internet connection Tech-on-wheels Support Participate and join our CS Social Clubs and Special Interest Groups to connect with colleagues International career growth and connections Unlimited cash incentives for hired referrals Mental Wellness Employee Assistance program through Lifeworks In-house psychiatrist available to support employees' well-being Become part of the Employee Share Units program Cloudstaff Dream Points - To be used for bidding useful items like appliances, kitchenettes etc. Cloudstaff : Build Your Career, Anywhere Established in 2005, Cloudstaff is a leading outsourcing company that empowers businesses to thrive through smarter talent solutions. We're passionate about creating a work environment that fosters your professional growth and overall well-being. Why Cloudstaff is the #1 Workplace? Award-winning Culture: We're committed to building the #1 Workplace Everywhere, with a proven track record of staff engagement initiatives and industry recognition Invest in You: We support your development through comprehensive training programs, mentoring and opportunities for career advancement Thrive as an Individual: We offer a strong work-life balance with flexible schedules, meaningful perks and a collaborative team environment. **To become a priority applicant, please share a 1-2 minute video introduction detailing you experience in this specific role. You can upload your video to the CSJobs platforms. Please use a clean, distraction-free background and speak clearly and articulately.**