Plaud Staff Engineer at Plaud rotating across product, platform, and infrastructure teams to solve high-leverage engineering problems. Write production code and lead technical designs that cross team boundaries.
Responsibilities
Rotate across Plaud's product, platform and infrastructure teams based on business needs, working with whichever team has the highest-leverage engineering problem.
Go deep with each team on its hardest problem, such as a stalled migration, a reliability or on-call problem, a slow CI pipeline, or an AI quality gap, and ship the fix together.
Write production code: design, build, review and ship, not just advise.
Lead technical designs that cross team boundaries, including shared APIs, data contracts between teams, and handoffs between product and platform teams.
Raise the engineering bar in every team you join: testing, observability, runbooks, code review, and evals in CI/CD.
Build an end-to-end understanding of the whole system, from the device and capture pipeline to transcription, AI notes, AI agent features and the services underneath. Use it to guide architecture decisions across the org with Gene and the eng leads.
Mentor senior engineers in the US and Asia, and help grow the next generation of tech leads.
Explore and drive AI-native engineering practice, showing teams how AI-assisted development speeds up real work.
Skills, qualifications and experience we look for
10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years at Staff level or equivalent scope.
Deep expertise in more than one area, such as backend distributed systems, mobile or client, data pipelines, or ML/LLM systems, and the ability to ramp up quickly on unfamiliar code.
Proven track record leading technical work across teams, with design docs and migrations that other engineers adopted.
