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Staff Software Engineer, Core

United States, San Francisco · Job Posted December 08, 2025
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Job Description

We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content. The Core Team builds features to help our users find each other and use Descript to create and communicate their ideas with the world. We own critical systems ancillary to the business, such as access control, team management, project organization, usage tracking, payments, and more.

Job Responsibility

  • Set the technical direction for Descript’s identity model
  • Lead large multi-quarter initiatives by collaborating with cross-functional partners
  • Own building and shipping features across all levels of the stack (frontend and backend)
  • Influence the strategy and roadmap by proactively identifying and recommending high ROI areas to invest in
  • Mentor other Engineers and advise teams on architecture and quality

Requirements

  • Full-stack product engineer
  • Comfortable integrating and debugging functionality and logic end to end
  • Strategic decision making and ability to push back on unnecessary complexity or scope creep
  • Experience to bring forth proven industry practices
  • Well versed in web development and associated devtools
  • Technologies: Typescript, REST API development, relational DBs
  • Track record evolving and re-architecting complex systems
  • Comfortable walking off the beaten path, at the edge of systems
  • Competent thinking about security risks & mitigations
  • Experience integrating 3rd party services
  • Strong at testing and debugging
  • Solid collaboration and communication
  • Growth mindset

Nice to have

  • AI curious
  • Experience building account management features such as Invite flows, domain discovery, team management
  • Enterprise features like audit logs, SSO and SCIM
  • Opinions/experience with authz at scale: roles, permissions, RBAC, FGA

What we offer

  • Generous healthcare package
  • 401k matching program
  • Catered lunches
  • Flexible vacation time
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