StaffSoftwareEngineer

Staff engineering at Opus 2 is about what happens when complex problems span multiple teams or systems and someone needs to make them tractable. You'll set technical direction across a domain, lead the work that no single squad can pick up alone, and shape how the engineering organisation builds software at the pace AI is forcing on us. We want staff engineers who treat the messy, ambiguous, cross-cutting problems as the most interesting ones to work on. This is an IC role with broad influence. You can grow toward Principal from here. ### What you'll do * **Lead initiatives that span teams or systems.** Domain-level work that's large, ambiguous, and business-critical. You break it into actionable pieces and mobilise teams to deliver. * **Set technical direction across teams.** Architecture, technology choices, system shape. You make calls that hold up over years and explain them so others can carry them forward. * **Resolve systemic issues.** The recurring incidents, the duplication, the integration cracks. The things that affect multiple teams and that no single team owns alone. * **Coach senior engineers into broader contributors.** The next generation of staff engineers grows because you invest in them. * **Champion pragmatic engineering across the organisation.** Simple, testable, data informed. You set the standard for how decisions get made, not just what gets built. * **Shape how we adopt AI.** In product, in tooling, in how teams work. You make the calls that turn fast change into capability rather than chaos. ### The shape we're hiring for We're hiring T-shaped engineers operating at scale: **broad understanding across multiple systems and how they interact, with deep credibility in at least one area.** * **Depth at scale.** Your domain expertise is recognised by colleagues, peers in the wider community, or both. You're consulted because you're trusted. * **Breadth across systems.** You can reason about architecture beyond your immediate domain. "That's not