# Staff Engineer at Raft

- Company: Raft
- What the company does: Raft brings the power of AI and logistics together to help freight forwarders and customs brokers automate workflows, cut costs, and scale efficiently. Backed by Bessemer.
- Company website: https://www.raft.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Colorado Springs, CO
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Apply by: 2026-12-04
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/raft/jobs/6227244004?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/raft-staff-engineer-4/

## About the role

As the Staff Engineer for [R]AIMS, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for evolving the architecture, execution, and engineering rigor of Raft’s AI Mission System. You will be hands-on in the codebase, leading by doing, while also setting technical direction and raising the quality of engineering across the team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping production software systems across the full stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure, and ML)
- Deep software engineering fundamentals with demonstrated ability to design, build, and evolve complex systems that perform reliably at scale
- Exceptional technical communication skills, able to lead through influence across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders without requiring direct authority
- Proven experience designing and evolving distributed systems, including service decomposition, inter-service communication patterns, fault tolerance, and observability
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform architecture in production environments
- Experience building data-intensive or AI-enabled production systems with real operational users and real performance constraints

Tags: Engineering

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