Staff Software Engineer

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners.  Now a part of the Daimler family , we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the Team

The Engineering organization is composed of cross-functional teams focused on platform infrastructure, product development, developer experience, scalability, and operational excellence.

As a Group IC, you will partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Architects, and Senior Engineers to drive technical strategy and ensure consistency across systems, services, and engineering practices. This role operates at a multi-team level with broad organizational impact.

What You’ll Do

As a Group IC, you will provide technical leadership across teams and platforms, driving architectural strategy, engineering excellence, and scalable system design for cloud-based applications. You will lead high-impact technical initiatives, influence long-term engineering direction, and collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Release Management, DevOps, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions.

This role will involve:

Defining and maintaining the architectural vision across teams, platforms, and services to ensure scalability, reliability, maintainability, and long-term technical alignment

Driving architectural consistency across APIs, data models, infrastructure, system integrations, and software design patterns

Leading major technical initiatives such as platform modernization, observability enhancements, performance optimization, scalability improvements, and reliability engineering efforts

Coordinating cross-team technical projects and aligning engineering standards, infrastructure decisions, and roadmap priorities across organizations

Supporting Engineering Managers and Senior ICs in resolving complex technical design, architecture, and implementation challenges across multiple domains

Establishing and promoting engineering best practices for code quality, automated testing, performance optimization, monitoring, security, and operational excellence

Partnering with Release Management and DevOps teams to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release reliability, and incident response readiness

Identifying, prioritizing, and reducing systemic technical debt, architectural bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies across teams and platforms

Conducting architecture reviews, technical deep dives, design sessions, and technical assessments to guide engineering decisions and solution direction

Mentoring and coaching senior and mid-level engineers while helping grow future Staff and Principal engineers through technical guidance and leadership development

Fostering a culture of engineering excellence, documentation, collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing across the organization

Proactively identifying technical risks related to scalability, system architecture, cybersecurity, reliability, compliance, and data usage

Helping balance and prioritize investments between new feature development, platform improvements, operational stability, and technical debt reduction

Acting as a technical leader in product and roadmap discussions, partnering with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, architects, and designers to align technical feasibility with business objectives

Translating complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and architectural decisions into clear recommendations for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

Proven experience operating as a Staff, Principal, or multi-team technical leader within complex engineering organizations

Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, scalable backend systems, and modern cloud infrastructure

Strong understanding of software engineering best practices including CI/CD, observability, testing strategies, and operational reliability

Experience leading large cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams

Strong systems design and architecture review experience

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop senior engineering talent

Strong problem-solving and technical decision-making capabilities

Preferred Skills

Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure

Familiarity with Kuberne…