Staff Software Engineer

We are seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across product areas. You will shape architecture, guide complex engineering initiatives, and help teams deliver scalable, secure, and reliable software.

This remote role is based in USA/Canada and requires strong collaboration across distributed engineering, product, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, highly available systems and platforms.
- Define architectural direction, engineering standards, and technical best practices across teams.
- Drive large technical initiatives such as modernization, cloud transformation, platform scalability, and developer productivity improvements.
- Lead technical planning, design reviews, and risk mitigation for cross-team initiatives.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering Managers, Architects, and stakeholders to turn business goals into sustainable technical solutions.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical leadership, design practices, and knowledge sharing across the organization.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, including leadership of technical initiatives.
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and C# in enterprise-scale applications.
- Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.
- Strong AWS and/or Azure experience, including security, observability, automation, and production operations.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, DevOps practices, and Terraform.
- Deep understanding of scalability, performance, resilience, and reliability engineering.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building or operating production AI/LLM-enabled applications, such as model integrations, evaluation frameworks, or AI-assisted developer tooling.
- Experience with highly available SaaS production systems.

About Us

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.