Staff Engineer

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About the Role

As a Staff Engineer, you'll be a principal contributor across multiple projects, responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of high-performance backend systems and sophisticated cloud infrastructure. You'll serve as a deep technical expert, guiding teams, mentoring engineers, and establishing best practices in areas including DevSecOps and Cloud Computing. This is a senior, high-impact role that requires a blend of hands-on coding, architectural foresight, and client-facing communication, including the ability to modernize and maintain both cutting-edge and established client systems.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Define and lead the technical vision for complex client projects. Design, develop, and deploy highly scalable and resilient backend services and APIs.

• Hands-On Development: Serve as a subject matter expert and primary contributor across our core backend stack, working primarily with Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Golang, and Python.

• Cloud & DevSecOps Excellence: Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, with a deep focus on container orchestration using EKS. Champion automation and security practices through the entire lifecycle. Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Pulumi.

• Legacy Modernization & Maintenance: Provide expert guidance and support for client systems built on established stacks, including deep familiarity with troubleshooting, optimizing, and migrating LAMP environments.

• Mentorship & Quality: Drive engineering quality by performing insightful code reviews, establishing design patterns, and mentoring mid-level and senior engineers on technical strategy and best practices.

• Consulting & Communication: Partner directly with clients to understand their needs, articulate complex technical concepts, and present solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 14+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with significant time spent in a senior or leadership role (e.g., Staff, Principal, or Senior Consultant).

• Backend Expertise: Strong, solid, and demonstrable experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade services using at least two of the following: Ruby, Golang, or Python.

• Cloud & Containers: Deep expertise in AWS cloud services and extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, specifically managing and optimizing clusters in EKS.

• DevSecOps Mastery: Proven track record of implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and security best practices, including deep experience with Pulumi for IaC and practical application of GitOps principles using FluxCD.

• Architecture & Design: Expert-level understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and common design patterns, and the ability to apply these concepts to both modern and legacy systems.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Typescript and modern front-end frameworks like React.

• Experience with GitOps workflows using FluxCD for continuous deployment and configuration management.

• Practical experience managing and optimizing LAMP stack components in high-traffic environments.

• Prior experience in a consulting environment, demonstrating the ability to context-switch, quickly learn new domains, and manage client expectations.

At .Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

What We Offer

.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting .Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

UNITED STATES, REMOTE

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays

• 401k with company contribution

• Paid parental leave

• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being

• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network

• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!

• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range:
$90,000—$95,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.