Staff Engineer - Core Engineering Services

Overview

ROLE AT A GLANCE:

The Staff Engineer is a hands-on senior technical leader within Herbalife’s Digital Technologyorganization, operating at the first individual-contributor level whose impact spans multiple teamswithin a domain — positioned above Senior Engineer and below Principal Engineer on the technicaltrack. Embedded directly with product engineering teams, the Staff Engineer sets technical direction,provides architectural guidance, drives adoption of modern platform standards and engineeringpractices, and mentors senior engineers across multiple teams within a domain or office. This is apure individual contributor role — influence comes through technical depth, clarity, and leadershiprather than positional authority. Staff Engineers stay hands-on, writing production code regularly(roughly half of their time) while devoting the balance to architecture, technical strategy, and cross-team alignment; they serve as the technical conscience and quality bar-setter for their area andpartner with engineering leadership to translate enterprise technical vision into execution.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT: • Provide hands-on technical leadership and set technical direction across multiple teams withina domain or office, writing production-grade code roughly half of the time, reviewing others’work, and modeling what great engineering looks like.• Drive adoption of platform standards, modern tooling, and engineering best practices —version control, testing, build/deploy, observability, and security — and enforce the technicalbaseline through code review, pairing, and proactive intervention.• Lead resolution of the most complex, ambiguous technical problems in the area, serving asthe point of escalation and driving root-cause analysis and systemic improvement forproduction incidents.• Mentor and level up engineers across the domain, including senior engineers, through pairing,design collaboration, and deliberate knowledge transfer — with impact measured by thegrowth of the engineers around them.• Own the technical health and velocity of the domain, identifying recurring problems andbuilding shared tooling, automation, runbooks, and training that lift the whole team.• Partner with the Sr. Director and Distinguished Engineer to translate enterprise-level technicalstrategy and roadmap into on-the-ground execution, while providing bottom-up input onplatform priorities based on the team’s real needs.• Build cross-team alignment and communicate technical decisions clearly to both engineersand non-technical stakeholders, producing the design docs, decision records, anddocumentation that keep teams aligned.

• Raise the engineering baseline beyond your immediate team by creating training content,running working sessions, and bringing modern industry practices, tools, and patterns into theorganization.

TEAM DYNAMICS:• You’ll be embedded within Herbalife’s distributed Digital Technology organization, workinghands-on across teams spanning the US, Guadalajara, and Bangalore during a multi-yearplatform transformation. The environment is collaborative and code-first: you’ll pair withengineers daily, partner closely with product, security, and enterprise architecture, and workdirectly with the Sr. Director of Engineering and Distinguished Engineer to bring modernengineering practices to a team that is eager to level up. Comfort working across time zonesand cultures is essential.

LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:• This is a pure individual contributor role with no direct reports or people-managementaccountability. Leadership is exercised through technical influence, mentorship, and settingthe engineering quality bar rather than positional authority.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS FOR SUCCESS: 

Education• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, orequivalent practical experience.

Experience• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on work inmodern web application development, platform engineering, or cloud-native architecture, withat least 2 years operating at a senior level driving technical decisions across more than oneteam.• Hands-on experience adopting or extending modern platform and developer-experiencetooling: CI/CD pipelines, shared libraries and service templates, API gateways, contracttesting, and observability (e.g., OpenTelemetry).• Working knowledge of distributed systems patterns — event-driven architecture, messagestreaming, synchronous vs. asynchronous tradeoffs, and service-to-service authentication.• Track record of writing architecture and design documentation — decision records, runbooks— that engineers actively use and that is maintained as a living standard.• Experience using engineering health metrics (deployment frequency, change failure rate,incident volume) to guide technical decisions within a team or domain.• Demonstrable experience driving cross-team technical alignment, adopting modernengineering practices (trunk-based development, CI/CD, observability, automated testing),and mentoring senior engineers. Experience working across distributed teams and time zonesstrongly preferred

Skills/Certifications 

• Deep expertise in at least one engineering domain (frontend, backend, platform, or data) withstrong working knowledge across the full stack.• Fluency with modern software development practices and AI-assisted development, with theability to model their effective use for the team.• Strong architecture and design skills, with experience authoring technical decision recordsand design documentation that others reference.• Excellent communication and mentorship skills — patient, empathetic, and committed toknowledge transfer; able to influence without positional authority.• Data-informed decision-making — able to define and use engineering metrics to guidearchitecture, prioritization, and continuous improvement, with a strong grasp of trunk-baseddevelopment and feature flagging

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US Benefits Statement

Herbalife offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees in the U.S. (limited to the 50 States and the District of Columbia), which includes Group Health Programs, other Voluntary Benefit Programs, and Paid Time Off. Group Health Programs include Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Basic Life/AD&D; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Other Voluntary Benefit Programs include a 401(k) plan, Wellness Incentive Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Supplemental Life/Critical Illness/Hospitalization/Accident Insurance, and Pet Insurance. Paid time off includes Company-observed U.S. Holidays, Floating Holidays, Vacation, Sick Time, a Volunteer Program, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave, Bereavement Leave, Personal Leave and time off for voting.