Staff Software Engineer (Product Engineering)

The Role:

This isn’t your typical Staff Engineer role. As a Rover in Cedar’s Product Engineering Organization, you’ll move between squads to tackle the most complex, high leverage engineering challenges—wherever they emerge.

The Kinds of Problems You’ll Solve:

Other Rover Staff Engineers at Cedar have successfully advocated for and implemented broad changes to improve our overall system architecture. One such project was the Communications Platform Overhaul:

• A current Rover Staff Engineer led a full redesign of our patient communication scheduling system.
  The legacy architecture was brittle: single-process, resource-heavy, and difficult to extend safely.
• The new event-based design introduced Kafka and Flink, improving resilience, scalability, and support for personalized outreach.
• This initiative set the blueprint for Cedar’s broader move toward event-driven architecture across the org.

As you get familiar with the Product Engineering systems, you will help identify opportunities for large-scale improvements to high-impact systems like the above project. One potential upcoming project you could likely focus on would be to Lead the Evolution of Patient Assistance:

• This is an opportunity to improve how we connect with millions of patients and lead the modernization of our core chat platform, moving from a legacy system to a more flexible, AI-ready solution. 
• You’ll own the selection and integration of a new platform that enhances our current capabilities and prepares us for more personalized and assistive patient experiences. 
• This project spans multiple teams and directly impacts Cedar’s long-term product vision and technical architecture.

Cedar’s ability to reach and support patients—at scale and with empathy—hinges on the technical foundation of the Patient Pillar. 

You’ll take on hard, high-stakes problems, such as real-time communication and personalized decisioning, working with sensitive financial and medical data. These aren’t solved problems—they require creativity, precision, and systems thinking.

• Lead cross-squad technical strategy and unblock high-priority initiatives.
• Mentor engineers at all levels through coaching, feedback, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Shape org-wide architecture through forums such as the Architectural Steering Group.
• Contribute hands-on code approximately 60% of the time—this is a deeply technical role, not a hands-off Staff+ position.
• Influence Cedar’s engineering culture by bringing your experience with things like testing patterns, code review practices, scalable team workflows, best practices for GraphQL, etc. 

• You have 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and scaling production systems.
• You’ve led major technical projects that cut across teams, functions, and layers of the stack—and you know how to drive alignment without needing to be the loudest voice in the room.
• You take deep ownership of business-critical systems. You understand what it means to build for performance, supportability, and long-term evolution.
• You know how to debug complex, cross-system issues and design for observability and resilience up front.
• You’re a mentor and multiplier—you make other engineers better through guidance, partnership, and code/design review.
• You’re comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and can facilitate clarity and focus on complex requirements.
• You can translate deep technical thinking into clear, persuasive communication—whether you're talking to engineers, execs, or cross-functional peers.
• You care about the “why,” not just the “how.” You want to build software that makes a difference for real people navigating healthcare.

Compensation Range and Benefits:

• Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $216,750 - $280,000
• This role is equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

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