Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Root Inc. is building technology to create better insurance experiences and products for drivers. The Staff Software Engineer will set the technical direction for the AI Platform foundation, leading cross-team initiatives involving platform architecture, shared services, governance, reliability, security, and AI adoption.
Responsibilities
- Define what Root must make true for AI to become a trusted, company-wide capability—and translate that vision into multi-quarter technical direction
- Lead the cross-team initiatives that turn AI strategy into durable platform architecture, shared services, and operating models
- Make the hard technical tradeoffs that let teams move quickly without compromising security, reliability, observability, cost, or long-term maintainability
- Unblock critical work across AI Platform, product engineering, data, security, and infrastructure by aligning decisions across systems and domains
- Establish the standards and feedback loops that help Root monitor, govern, and continuously improve AI-enabled systems
- Anticipate the next constraints before they become blockers, then drive the technical investments that unlock the company’s next stage of AI adoption
- Multiply impact by developing engineers and technical leaders through clear architecture, strong mentorship, and excellent systems judgment
Skills
- 7+ years as a software engineer
- 3+ years leading software teams or major technical initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and deliver results across multiple teams or a meaningful engineering domain
- Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, Terraform, secure software delivery, and production operations
- Strong systems-design judgment across reliability, observability, security, cost, and long-term maintainability
- Experience guiding AI/LLM platform or application architecture and evaluating novel technical approaches responsibly
- Ability to drive cross-team implementation decisions, resolve ambiguity, and communicate complex topics to senior leaders
- A record of shaping technical roadmaps, unlocking long-term value, and developing engineers beyond an immediate team
- Excellent collaboration and influence skills with engineering and cross-functional leaders
Benefits
- Eligible for competitive bonus and equity offering
- Root is a "work where it works best" company. This means we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US.
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