Staff Software Engineer

🕒 September 10

🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

💵 $9k - $12k / month

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Sur Global

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501 - 1000 employees

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Logistics • Consulting

Sur Global is a nearshore talent solutions provider that helps companies find and hire top remote professionals from Latin America. Positioning “E-Migration” and nearshoring as the future of work, Sur Global focuses on reducing operating costs and increasing productivity by sourcing sales, engineering, marketing, and customer success talent across countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. They serve businesses looking to scale operations with LATAM remote teams and emphasize measurable ROI from nearshore hiring.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and scale core platform infrastructure handling high-volume web traffic at the CDN and edge computing layer • Lead architecture design, technical planning, and authoring of long-term design documents • Plan and execute gradual, methodical rollouts by defining target audiences, KPIs, and success metrics before shipping changes • Debug complex front-end behavior across browsers, devices, and geographies • Collaborate with data engineering to ensure testability at scale and build measurement and observability frameworks • Solve high-complexity technical problems involving significant scope and ambiguity • Mentor engineers and serve as a technical escalation point for complex platform challenges • Stay current with web performance technologies, edge computing patterns, and browser optimization techniques • Integrate AI coding tools into the engineering workflow

🎯 Requirements

• 10 years of software engineering experience with a strong background in building and scaling high-traffic, multi-tenant web platforms • Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python • Demonstrated experience designing and operating distributed, high-availability systems at meaningful scale • Cloud platform experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure • Experience with CDN infrastructure and web performance optimization, including Cloudflare, Lighthouse, WebPageTest, web workers, lazy loading, and code splitting • Infrastructure as Code experience with Pulumi or equivalent • Strong SQL and data querying skills; ability to work with data warehouses • Experience with message queues such as SQS or Kinesis and CI/CD pipelines • Experience with PostgreSQL, Redshift, or equivalent data storage • Strong problem-solving skills and detail orientation • Active use of AI engineering tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Codex • Strong English communication skills for technical discussions and asynchronous written collaboration • Availability to work full Eastern Standard Time hours • Legal authorization to work as an independent contractor in the country where located • Preferred: Cloudflare Workers or edge computing experience • Preferred: E-commerce platform experience with Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or similar • Preferred: Snowflake or data warehouse query optimization experience • Preferred: Media or high-traffic publishing platform background • Preferred: Experience running or leading a multi-brand or multi-tenant web platform • Preferred: Prior startup experience with significant platform ownership • Preferred: Agile/Scrum experience in a distributed team environment

🏖️ Benefits

• 15 days PTO • Local or US holidays