Lead Engineer

Raft Company Website · Remote; McLean, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; Tacoma, WA; Oahu, HI; Tampa, FL; Boston, MA

Posted about 3 months ago · $180,000.00 - $230,000.00

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open: 81 days
Reposted: No
Salary listed: Yes
Ghost-job risk at Raft Company Website: high
Hiring momentum: 33 roles opened in the last 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board: 2026-10-23

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Raft Company Website's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Raft Company Website.

About this role

As a Staff Engineer for Raft's AI Mission System ([R]AIMS), you will lead the evolution of the platform's architecture and engineering practices while being hands-on in the codebase. Your role involves driving architectural decisions, leading technical initiatives, and mentoring engineers, all while ensuring the platform's performance and reliability in complex operational environments.

Our read on this posting3.8out of 5

benefits: 3/5
freshness: 1/5
career value: 5/5
role clarity: 5/5
pay transparency: 5/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Raft Company Website as an employer.

What you need

6+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping production software systems across the full stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure, and ML)
Deep software engineering fundamentals with demonstrated ability to design, build, and evolve complex systems that perform reliably at scale
Exceptional technical communication skills; able to lead through influence across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders without requiring direct authority
Proven experience designing and evolving distributed systems, including service decomposition, inter-service communication patterns, fault tolerance, and observability
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform architecture in production environments
Experience building data-intensive or AI-enabled production systems with real operational users and real performance constraints

Nice to have

Experience building AI/ML infrastructure or agentic systems, including orchestration frameworks, tool-use patterns, and LLM integration in production
Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures, particularly Kafka, Kafka Streams, or Apache Flink
Experience with platform engineering and internal developer tooling, including golden-path frameworks, shared libraries, and developer experience improvements
Experience with real-time inference or operational AI systems in latency-sensitive environments
Experience building secure, compliant systems for regulated or mission-critical environments, including familiarity with IL4/IL5/IL6 requirements or RMF processes

What you get

Highly competitive salary
Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) and company match
Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
Education & training benefits
Generous Referral Bonuses

Worth weighing

No salary listed in the posting, only a range provided
Role involves significant leadership and mentoring responsibilities, which may require strong interpersonal skills
Position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance, which may not be suitable for all candidates

Summarised from Raft Company Website's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Raft Company Website on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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