# Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Edge Platform at Sage

- Company: Sage
- What the company does: Senior living technology that connects care, staffing, and insights to improve outcomes, reduce risk, and support stronger clinical and operational decisions. Backed by IVP.
- Company website: https://sagehealth.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $245K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sage49/jobs/6152678004?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sage-senior-staff-software-engineer-edge-platform/

## About the role

Somewhere in a senior living community right now, a camera and a small computer are working together to figure out whether the person who just fell is okay. The community’s network connection may be fiddly and unreliable, and the deployed hardware has its own quirks. That system is one of thousands just like it, running software your team wrote, doing work that matters if something goes wrong. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You have professional experience working in complex backend systems: This usually means at least 7+ years of work experience, building (and sometimes breaking) within systems that grew and changed over time
- You have working knowledge of networking , enough to reason about what happens when a device drops offline mid-update, or why a connection is behaving strangely, without needing to look up the fundamentals first
- You're demonstrably curious, e.g. in side projects, open source contributions, a home lab, a technical hobby, or a history of teaching yourself things. We care less about the domain than that it exists
- You can hold complexity and still ship. You've led a technical effort, official title or not, from a fuzzy problem to a real outcome, and you know how to make tradeoffs under ambiguity

Tags: Engineering

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