Distinguished Engineer

Strategic Planning:

• Develop and own the long-term technical roadmap
• Identify opportunities to invest in platform capabilities, innovation, and tooling
• Lead platform modernization, breaking the monolith, developer experience improvement, AI/ML capability integrations
• Build strategies to reduce tech debt, improve efficiency

Architectural Leadership:

• Define architectural guidelines & best practices for the BU/Organization
• Promote modularity, reusability, observability, and resiliency
• Ensure adoption via workshops & architectural reviews
• Serve as a decision maker and escalation point for architecture disputes
• Guiding strategies for multi-region deployments, distributed data, and async communication
• Embed SRE, security, compliance, data privacy, and performance thinking into architecture from the ground up
• Encourage adoption of latest technologies

Hands-On Implementation & Prototyping:

• You are expected to be deeply technical.
• Lead by example by prototyping new services, creating boilerplate for teams to follow, and tackling the most complex technical challenges yourself

Technical Governance:

• As a Distinguished Engineer, you are expected to establish and uphold the technical standards, practices, and decision-making frameworks
• Define coding standards, architectural patterns and technology principles
• Guide architecture review process ensuring alignment with company-wide standards
• Define policies for adoption, maturity, and deprecation of frameworks, tools and languages
• Ensure key decisions are made with transparency, peer input, and traceability
• Guidance on critical tradeoffs - build vs buy, open source

Mentorship & Influence:

• Act as a technical mentor to senior ICs & technical leaders.
• Elevate the technical capabilities of the entire BU/organization through presentations, documentation, and one-on-one guidance. Your decisions and insights should influence and align engineers and leaders across the company.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner with product, business, and executive teams to translate product vision into scalable architectural solutions
• Identify platform level investment for product velocity
• Engage with Design, UX and research to ensure customer experience, accessibility, performance, and responsiveness
• Represent engineering in strategic customer conversations or escalations by partnering with the business stakeholders
• Drive collaboration across engineering functions
• Participate in investment prioritization and OKR reviews

Risk Management:

• Should play a critical role in identifying and mitigating technical risks that could jeopardize product s success, customer experience and integrity.

18-20 years

6 years