Vizcom · 5 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$234K/yr - $285K/yr
8+ years expVizcom is on a mission to reshape design by streamlining the path from concept to creation. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of critical product areas, drive design reviews, and mentor teammates while establishing engineering standards as the company scales.
Design
Responsibilities
Set the architecture roadmap to keep Vizcom reliable, scalable, and a joy to develop in as usage, models, and data grow
Ship hands-on: jump into code for critical paths, rapid prototypes, and hairy debugging (latency, memory, race conditions, WebGL/WASM quirks)
Install quality guardrails that scale: test strategy, code-review norms, perf budgets, observability baselines
Mentor and multiply: develop senior engineers into tech leads, model clear written design, and practice crisp decision-making
Partner cross-functionally: represent engineering trade-offs with Product, Design, and Go-To-Market; act as the CTO’s delegate when needed
Reliability and performance: land an observability-driven plan for our top-5 critical flows; reduce p95 for at least one user-visible flow by about 30% through targeted fixes (query plans, caching, batching, streaming, GPU/CPU boundaries)
Architecture: author one substantial RFC (for example, realtime doc model, rendering pipeline boundaries, or background job topology) and lead it to adoption
Team health: mentor two engineers with measurable growth in scope, design quality, or incident handling
Developer experience: remove one persistent friction point (local env speed, CI flakiness, or flaky e2e surface) and document the standard
High-fanout realtime collaboration (WebSockets and CRDT-style data models)
GPU-backed image generation pipelines and queueing with bursty workloads
Performance across the stack: React and Vite bundles, GraphQL n+1s, Postgres query plans, caching at the right layer
Enterprise-grade SSO, SAML, SCIM, auditability, and secure multi-tenant boundaries
A design-forward UX that must still feel instant under load
Qualification
Required
8–12+ years building distributed web systems (TypeScript/Node preferred) with 2+ years at Staff scope
Depth with Postgres and performance/observability (profiling, traces, query tuning)
Experience with container orchestration and production ops (Kubernetes or equivalent)
Preferred
realtime collaboration models
WebGL/WASM
GPU workloads
enterprise identity (SSO/SAML/SCIM)
Benefits
Offers Equity
Company
Vizcom
Building tools that shorten the distance between having ideas and bringing them to life. https://linktr.ee/vizcom_
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase