or apply directly on Five9's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 48 days Five9's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Five9's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Five9
- high 123 stale, 4 reposted of 124 open
- Hiring momentum
- 210 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Five9's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Five9.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Five9, you will focus on developing and optimizing core backend services for their cloud contact center platform. Your role involves designing high-performance microservices, ensuring service reliability, and mentoring junior engineers. You will also collaborate with other engineers on system design and contribute to improving CI/CD processes.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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 Five9 as an employer.
What you need
- 7–10 years of development experience in Java microservices
- Deep expertise in Java, with strong experience in Spring/Spring Boot
- Proven ability to build and operate distributed, cloud-native microservices at scale
- Strong experience with GCP services (GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, CockroachDB, Redis)
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or similar)
- Practical knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and caching strategies
Nice to have
- Experience in latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems
- Familiarity with Looker, analytics pipelines, and large-scale reporting systems
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, JIRA, Confluence, and end-to-end testing practices
- Exposure to frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on mentoring and technical guidance may indicate a collaborative environment
- Emphasis on cloud-native technologies and microservices suggests a modern tech stack
Summarised from Five9's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Five9 on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
More roles at Five9
- Vice President, Data ScienceUnited States (Remote)
- Senior Product Marketing Manager - Campaign Management & OutboundUnited States (Remote)
- Senior Information Security EngineerPorto, Portugal (Hybrid)
- Senior Corporate Counsel – Legal TransactionsUnited States (Remote)
- Enterprise Sales Director - SoutheastUnited States (Remote)
- Enterprise Sales Director - TOLA (Texas)United States (Remote)
- Enterprise Sales Director - Midwest/Mid-AtlanticUnited States (Remote)
- Director, Solution Consulting OperationsUnited States (Remote)