Staff Software Engineer
WFA Digital Insight
Turing's Staff Software Engineer role stands out for its emphasis on technical leadership and cross-team influence. As a senior IC, you'll drive architecture and technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and partner with engineering leadership. What makes this role unique is the opportunity to shape how the organization builds software and leave a lasting impact on the company's technical strategy. Candidates should be prepared to showcase their expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture, as well as their ability to drive complex initiatives and raise engineering standards.
Job Description
About Turing
Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and frontier research benchmarks that improve model capabilities in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and advanced STEM reasoning. In software engineering, Turing is the largest and longest-running data provider in the category. Turing also works with Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG to build and deploy end-to-end agentic AI systems inside mission-critical workflows. By operating on both sides, Turing closes the loop between frontier research and enterprise deployment, turning real-world deployment signals into better data, evaluations, and more capable models. Learn more at www.turing.com.
Staff Engineer
Location: Bangalore, India · In-office · Hybrid Experience: 8–12 years
About the Role
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to set technical direction across multiple services and teams. You'll be a force multiplier — driving architecture, raising engineering standards, leading complex cross-team initiatives, and mentoring senior engineers. This is a senior IC role for a deeply technical engineer who shapes how the organization builds software and whose design judgment others adopt.
What You'll Do
- Drive architecture and technical direction across multiple services and teams.
- Lead complex, cross-cutting initiatives — migrations, modernization, and platform/system evolution.
- Own reliability and performance at scale; make high-leverage engineering decisions and tradeoffs.
- Raise engineering standards through design docs, standards, and reviews that others adopt.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical strategy beyond a single team.
- Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on technical roadmaps.
What We're Looking For
- 8–12 years of software engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership.
- Experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple services or teams.
- Cross-team influence: platform/system evolution and raising engineering standards.
- Deep distributed systems and cloud-native architecture expertise; strong engineering judgment.
- Demonstrated impact on multi-team technical direction, migrations/modernization, and reliability/performance.
- A history of mentoring senior engineers and producing standards and design docs that others adopt.
- A degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related engineering field is preferred but not required — we weight work outcomes most heavily.
Nice to Have
- AI platform architecture experience.
- Agentic systems / LLM infrastructure experience.
Values
- We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
- We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
- We are AI forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.
Advantages of joining Turing
- Work at the frontier of AI, helping the world’s leading AI labs improve their most advanced models by building expert datasets, RL environments, and first-of-a-kind benchmarks.
- Contribute to leading-edge AI research and showcase your work at top conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
- Bring frontier AI innovation to the enterprise, applying lessons learned from leading AI labs to solve real-world business challenges.
- Collaborate with and learn from exceptional colleagues with deep AI experience from Google, Meta, Amazon, and other leading technology companies.
- Move at the pace of AI innovation, with the speed, ownership, and impact of a startup.
Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.
How to Stand Out
- Tip 1: Be prepared to showcase your expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture, as well as your ability to drive complex initiatives and raise engineering standards.
- Tip 2: Highlight your experience working with cross-functional teams and driving technical roadmaps, as this is a critical aspect of the role.
- Tip 3: Make sure to demonstrate your ability to mentor senior engineers and produce standards and design docs that others will adopt.
- Tip 4: Familiarize yourself with Turing's technology stack and be prepared to discuss how you can contribute to the company's technical strategy.
- Tip 5: Be prepared to provide specific examples of your experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple services and teams.
- Tip 6: Show enthusiasm for working in a collaborative and dynamic environment, and highlight your ability to work effectively in a remote setting.
- Tip 7: Be prepared to discuss your experience working with agile development methodologies and version control systems, as well as your familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
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