Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI & Automation
Vista Equity Partners · Austin, TX, US
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**Staff Software Engineer — Enterprise AI & Automation** ## Position Summary Vista Equity Partners is seeking a **Staff Software Engineer** to join **Enterprise AI & Automation**, a small, senior team building production AI applications and a shared platform used by Vista’s own people to get work done. In this **individual contributor** role (Associate Director level), you’ll take loosely defined business problems through to **working software and adoption**. You’ll partner directly with stakeholders up to senior executives and help shape both **what** we build and **how** it’s delivered. **Location:** Fully remote within the US, or based in our **Austin** office. ## Responsibilities - **Design, build, and operate** AI applications and platform services end to end (discovery → production support) - Engage business users to identify the real problem; write **product requirements** and **design documents**; break work into deliverable pieces - Use modern AI tooling throughout delivery while maintaining a **high bar for code review and quality** - Lead **user testing, rollouts, and go-lives** with business owners; manage scope, tradeoffs, status, and adoption - Own shipped software, including **releases, defects, and ongoing iteration** - Raise the technical bar through thoughtful **code/design reviews**, written technical decisions, and improved team practices - Help set engineering patterns and standards; evaluate technology options - Participate in an **on-call rotation** for production applications and platform services - Mentor and level up engineers through everyday project work ## Qualifications ### Technical Skills - **10+ years** of software engineering experience (or equivalent scope) - Deep production experience with **TypeScript** and **Node.js**, including designing and operating APIs - Track record of owning software in production after launch (support, defects, iteration) - Cloud-native delivery on a major cloud platform (**Azure preferred**), including: - Infrastructure as code - CI/CD - Identity - Observability - Hands-on experience building **generative AI applications in production**, including **RAG** and evaluating/improving answer quality - Established AI-native engineering practice; strong use of AI coding tools to ship production software - Degree in Computer Science (or related) or equivalent experience ### Soft Skills - Excellent written and verbal communication, including the judgment to brief senior executives - Product mindset: take a feature set from **zero to adoption** and understand the business reasons behind the code - Experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders on requirements, tradeoffs, and rollouts - Collaborative mindset; ability to lead by influence and mentor engineers - Comfortable with ambiguity, change, and high autonomy ## Compensation The annualized base pay range is expected to be **$140,000 – $260,000**. Actual base pay may vary based on experience, subject matter expertise, geographic location, and applicant skill set. Base pay is only one component of total compensation, which may include an annual cash bonus and a comprehensive benefits package. ## Company Overview Vista is a preeminent technology investor specializing in enterprise AI and software, with **over $100B in AUM**. For over 25 years, Vista has pioneered new approaches to software investing and is applying that expertise to harness AI’s potential to redefine how work gets done. Learn more: https
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