Senior Staff Engineer (m|f|d) - #32911

Linz or Vienna; full-time

As Senior Staff Engineer (m|f|d), you act as a technological visionary for our product! Together, we are building a next-generation platform that functions as a universal advertising OS – high-performing and flexible. For this role, we are looking for someone who combines business strategy with technical excellence, shapes system architecture, and strengthens our teams through active mentoring.

• You shape the architecture, implementation, and maintenance of our platform together with our teams, with a special focus on our new agent subsystems.
• You become an active member of our Lead Dev circle as well as our cross-team chapters.
• You evaluate and recommend new technologies and approaches.
• You actively drive the adoption of agentic engineering and support our engineering teams in the process.
• You significantly steer and shape our engineering security strategy.
• You act as a mentor and point of contact for our junior engineers.
  

• You bring proven experience as a Staff Engineer.
• You have at least 8 years of experience in hands-on software development and possess a strong software engineering foundation.
• You already have direct experience in building LLM-powered agent harnesses as well as in using modern tools for agent orchestration.
• You are well-versed in handling CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• You navigate confidently in a cloud-native environment.
• You have profound experience with modern software security strategies.
• You feel comfortable in an international environment and enjoy speaking English.
• You enjoy working in a team and love sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues.
• You identify with our EPIC values – Excellence, Passion, Integrity & Cleverness.
  

As one of Austria's best employers and a certified Great Place To Work, we are particularly proud of our corporate culture. In addition to an open and highly appreciative interaction, we offer you:

• 3-month onboarding program with buddy support
• Weekly breakfast and lunch for all smecies
• Further training opportunities within the framework of our smec Academy – career paths, competence development, and much more
• Sports and health offers as part of smec Health – e-bikes in Linz, joint sports activities, as well as access to online psychological counseling
• Cool events such as internal meetups, get-togethers, and other social activities
• Sponsoring of team events
• MacBook Pro and iPhone with the option for private use
• First-class locations in Linz and Vienna – including great public transport connections

Sounds exciting? We look forward to receiving your application and are happy to answer any questions you may have.

For legal reasons, we refer to the collective agreement minimum salary of EUR 4,611 (14 x per year) for this position. The actual salary depends on your qualifications and experience; a willingness to provide a significant overpayment is given.