Staff Engineer — Product Engineering

About the Position

Shape how millions of people discover their strengths, engage their teams, and act on Gallup's research, and set the bar for how Gallup engineers build with AI.

Gallup's engineering organization builds the products that put Gallup's science into people's hands: CliftonStrengths®, employee engagement platforms, and the reporting and coaching experiences that turn decades of research into something people use every day.

If you want a seat that serves people around the globe and moves with the biggest technical problems in the organization instead of staying put on one team's roadmap, this is it.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the head of engineering as a technical thought partner across multiple concurrent initiatives, not tied to a single team's backlog
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering managers, tech leads, and senior engineers across teams, especially on architecture decisions with cross-team consequences
• Bring effective AI-assisted engineering practices into the teams you work with, using AI where it genuinely speeds things up and keeping human judgment as the check
• Lead a community of practice for senior engineers and tech leads, creating space for shared standards and technical growth outside the reporting line
• Hunt down emerging tools, techniques, and architectural patterns before anyone asks you to, and bring concrete, evaluated recommendations back to engineering leadership
• Shape what gets built next and how we'll know it worked, championing data and instrumentation as the basis for those calls
• Step into critical initiatives as a hands-on contributor when the problem calls for it, from early design through to production
• Translate high-level technical strategy (platform consolidation, identity and access modernization, AI tooling adoption) into concrete guidance teams can act on

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, required
• At least eight years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at a staff or equivalent cross-team scope, required
• Track record of influencing technical direction and aligning multiple teams without direct management authority required
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in real production work, with the judgment to know where to trust them and where not to, required
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and technical leads and building shared technical standards across a group required
• Strong system design and architecture fundamentals, with comfort moving across different parts of a stack as initiatives demand required
• Experience partnering closely with an engineering leader (head of engineering, director, or vice president) in an advisory, thought-partner capacity preferred
• Experience with identity and access platforms (such as Auth0 or Okta), survey or assessment-driven products, or large-scale platform migrations preferred
• A commitment to working on-site at Gallup’s San Francisco office at least three days per week required

We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $240,000-$300,000 per year
• Robust benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and more
• Fully vested 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching
• Employee stock ownership program
• Mass transit reimbursement
• Family-building benefits
• Employee assistance program
• Various reimbursements and activities that enhance wellbeing

About Gallup

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