Staff Software Engineer, Foundation - Seattle

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

 

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

 

 

 

Qualtrics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a high performing technical team to help build our next-generation text analytics services and further existing capabilities to help customers visualize and understand hundreds of millions of unstructured text data points. You will work across a breadth of technologies, touching all levels of the stack from LLM prompts, Kubernetes, text search engines, and cloud platforms. You will participate in and lead design and architecture discussions with your peers, sharing your expertise and learning from their experiences. Success comes from delivering high impact features and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams across foundations engineering and product managers. We expect our staff engineers to be excellent communicators who can influence the architectural north star and roadmap of the team and inspire others to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions. As a Staff Software Engineer on our team, you'll be expected to set the bar of the team in execution and quality by actively participating in design and architecture discussions, as well as reviewing the work of others.

 

• You will expand your leadership capabilities by owning complex projects and operational challenges, architectural decisions.
• Active collaboration with product owners, principle engineers to strategically align the road map with the team's technical vision and organization north star.
• Continuous learning through challenging technical problems, peer feedback, and participating in code reviews will sharpen your craft.
• Balancing multiple competing priorities by following the team mission and objectives.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to strategic planning will accelerate your career progression, which opens up opportunities to be a long term independent leader of a team.

What You Should Know About This Team

• This team is responsible for analyzing and finding insights from omni channel text.
• Our work is core to Qualtrics' mission to improve the human experience, and we have a great balance of greenfields and brownfields to explore.
• We are looking for an engineer who also has a passion for details and who works well with others across disciplines, and can empathize with customers and understand their business needs in the experience domain.

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.

 

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

 

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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.

 

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