Staff Software Engineer

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end\-to\-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. **About the Role** The Engineering Platform organization owns the systems that engineers at Compass depend on to build, test, deploy, and operate software. Our mission is to reduce friction across the SDLC, improve engineering effectiveness, and build the foundation for AI\-enabled software development. This role is centered on maximizing engineering velocity and velocity at scale by architecting fast feedback loops, optimizing system efficiency, and building seamless, intuitive workflows that empower developers across the entire software development lifecycle. As a Staff Engineer, you will work across observability, engineering telemetry, developer tooling, software catalog systems, organizational metadata, and AI\-assisted workflows to turn these gaps into durable platform capabilities. Applying AI across the software development lifecycle is a core responsibility of this role. You will build systems that use engineering signals to improve feedback loops, automate operational decision\-making, and reduce manual engineering work. This includes capabilities such as intelligent testing frameworks, AI\-assisted production troubleshooting, automated change analysis, workflow orchestration, and secure execution environments for AI\-generated code integrated throughout the SDLC. The ideal candidate sees the engineering ecosystem as an interconnected system of services, workflows, operational signals, and human behavior \- and knows how to simplify, standardize, and scale it. **Responsibilities** * Define the technical direction for Developer Intelligence systems across the SDLC, including engineering telemetry, observability, and AI\-assisted developer tooling. * Identify systemic eng