sunbeam
AI-native SEO agency
Senior/StaffEngineer
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“Senior / Staff Engineer at sunbeam. Skills: technical leadership, system architecture, backend systems, data pipelines, AI-enabled services, Python, TypeScript, C#. Act as the technical lead for day-to-day engineering execution across the team. Partner with the CTO to organize, prioritize, and sequence engineering work”
What You'll Achieve.
owning outcomes that real customers can stake their growth on; getting this right is a game-changer for how SEO gets done; consistent delivery of scalable systems; increase speed without sacrificing quality
Industry & Context.
engineering judgment and comfort with making architectural tradeoffs; Identify technical risks early and propose pragmatic, scalable solutions
requires in-person collaboration five (5) days per week, paid relocation for candidates outside the San Francisco Bay Area
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Significant experience building and operating production software systems, engineering judgment and comfort with making architectural tradeoffs, Experience owning systems end-to-end, from design through long-term maintenance, Ability to lead through influence, code, and technical decision-making rather than people management
Nice to Have
Experience in a Staff or Senior Engineer role at a high-growth company, Background in building distributed systems or complex backend platforms, Familiarity with AI-enabled or data-intensive systems, written and verbal communication skills, A consistently high bar for code quality, reliability, and technical excellence
What You'll Do.
Act as the technical lead for day-to-day engineering execution across the team
Partner with the CTO to organize
and sequence engineering work
Design and evolve core system architecture
guiding implementation decisions
Review pull requests and set standards for code quality
Identify technical risks early and propose pragmatic
Mentor engineers through technical guidance
Improve engineering workflows to increase speed without sacrificing quality
Work primarily across backend systems
and AI-enabled services
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work closely with a small, highly capable team across engineering and design; Partner with the CTO to shape system architecture, guide execution, and raise the quality bar across the engineering organization; lead through design decisions, code quality, and consistent delivery of scalable systems; Partner with the CTO to organize, prioritize, and sequence engineering work
Communication Scope
written and verbal communication skills
Process & Methodology
organize, prioritize, and sequence engineering work
Full Job Description
ABOUT SUNBEAM sunbeam https://withsunbeam.com is building a fully autonomous SEO agent that plans, writes, and ships work end-to-end. An agent that ships work is one of the harder problems in applied AI right now. It requires reasoning over long horizons, executing reliably across systems, and owning outcomes that real customers can stake their growth on. We believe getting this right is a game-changer for how SEO gets done. sunbeam was built inside daydream https://www.withdaydream.com/, an AI-native SEO agency that runs SEO end-to-end for companies like Anthropic, Clay, and Replit. We are distilling what daydream learned doing the work into an autonomous agent that does the work on its own. We've raised over $20M from First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, and SOMA Capital, and are backed by leaders from Notion, Airtable, Webflow, and Dropbox, including Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz, author of Product-Led SEO. THE TEAM You'll work closely with a small, highly capable team across engineering and design: - Shravan (CTO), formerly an Engineering Lead at Flixed and a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he worked on mass-scale web scraping for Facebook Jobs and Meta Reality Labs. - Vishruth (Founding Applied AI Engineer), previously a Data Scientist at Klaviyo specializing in NLP, with a research background from Cornell. - Daniel (Founding Applied AI Engineer), formerly a Data Engineer on Tesla's Autopilot team and previously Lead Data Engineer at Replit. - Tom (Founding Designer), who previously led product design at Blockless and now leads our frontend efforts. HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT As a Senior/Staff Engineer at sunbeam, you’ll provide technical leadership across the product while remaining deeply hands-on. You’ll partner closely with the CTO to shape system architecture, guide execution, and raise the quality bar across the engineering organization. This is not a people-management role; you’ll lead through design decisions, code quality, and consis
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