Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Ternary is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, to join our team. Both enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) are actively looking for a FinOps platform that provides visibility, optimization, and automation to manage their cloud spending and maximize business value. Ternary is a leading FinOps platform provider, managing our customers' billions of dollars of cloud spend.

About us:

We are passionate about building a platform that excels in FinOps, one that we wish we had in our past roles as engineers, financial analysts, and leaders. Our founding team boasts deep experience, with many members having been early employees at leading cost management/FinOps products. We've leveraged this expertise to develop an advanced platform that serves enterprise and MSP customers operating at scale. At Ternary, we value being biased toward action, acting with urgency, quick execution, and passion for supporting our customers.

You:

• 10+ years of delivering scalable web applications and platform services across early-stage and enterprise companies, with expertise in designing and implementing data and analytics platforms, including BigQuery, large-scale data warehousing, and pipelines that support analytics and product insights.

• Experience building backend services in Golang.

• Passionate about learning new knowledge and skills, skilled at quickly ramping up in new areas.

• Have a bias for action, and don’t let sensitive topics fester. Interested in promoting these traits within your own team and the greater Product Delivery org.

• Experience interacting with customers and business leads.

• Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.

• Regularly consider business lenses and tradeoffs, even for deeply technical engineering problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead critical and large-scale complex projects, provide both hands-on technical expertise and project execution.

• Contribute across the stack, with focus areas including API design, BigQuery and modern data warehousing, relational and non-relational databases, front-end development with React and TypeScript, authentication, CI/CD, documentation, and customer-facing features.

• Drive and own end-to-end delivery of features, including planning, design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, adoption, and performance in production.

• Make informed tradeoffs between tactical and strategic technical approaches, balancing long-term scalability with immediate business needs.

• Responsible for the overall architecture and quality bar of the Web Application.

• Uphold a high bar by participating in technical discussions, providing feedback on specs, and making recommendations while uplifting and mentoring junior team members.

Comp and benefits:

• Company-sponsored travel to interact with colleagues several times a year.

• We provide generous health benefits, 401(k) plan, and a WFH budget for you to set up your home office (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).

• Equity compensation so that all employees can participate in Ternary's success (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).

• The team culture is the best of what you would expect to see at a startup combined with a level of maturity you would see at a much larger company.

At Ternary, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of racial orientation, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Ternary is a remote-first company.