Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals safer businesses and ultimately safer nations. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview
Join our team as a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer serving as the primary technical authority and Lead for the Evidence this high-impact role you will transcend individual feature ownership to drive the multi-sprint technical strategy for our most complex mission-critical systems exclusively on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).You will be responsible for taking vaguely defined product requirements and refining them into a scalable asynchronous architecture that balances immediate delivery with long-term platform health. As a Technical Lead you will oversee the Evidence Preparation and Egress domains managing project milestones sprint grooming and team velocity. You will define the North Star for our development pipeline integrating advanced AI methodologies to radically optimize how we build secure and deploy court-ready evidence.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Strategic Technical Leadership: Act as the Team Lead for the Evidence Domain overseeing sprint planning grooming and driving the team toward critical delivery milestones.
GCP Ecosystem Architecture: Propose and defend robust architectures for high-stakes problems leveraging GKE Pub/Sub Vertex AI and Cloud Storage to build fault-tolerant systems.
Media Pipeline Architecture: Architect scalable media processing pipelines including distributed transcoding storage optimization for high-volume video and digital integrity verification (SHA-256) to ensure court-ready evidence.
Universal Egress Design: Architect a vendor-agnostic Adapter Pattern for evidence transfers ensuring the platform can securely handshake with any third-party repository via OAuth 2.0 and mTLS.
Requirements Refinement: Partner with Product Management to translate broad visions into actionable technical stories and architectural blueprints.
Cross-Team Coordination: Drive interactions across infrastructure and security teams to resolve dependencies and ensure the platform remains cohesive and performant.
AI Frontier Development: Lead the implementation of LLM-powered features (e.g. automated evidence summarization via Vertex AI) ensuring rigorous monitoring of live metrics and feedback-loop integration.
Advanced Mentorship: Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) across the organization coaching engineers and setting the standard for technical excellence.
Requirements:
Experience & Breadth: Bachelors degree plus 5 years of progressive technical experience including success managing complex projects that span multiple sprints and teams. Rust and C experience is preferred.
GCP Deep Expertise: Recognized expert in the Google Cloud ecosystem specifically GKE VPC Service Controls and IAM Workload Identity.
Systems Media Experience: Proven experience architecting large-scale video processing workflows including worker-pool strategies for transcoding bitstream manipulation and metadata preservation.
Orchestration Mastery: Deep experience with event-driven architectures state machine design and managing complex service-to-service contracts.
Leadership Presence: Proven ability to lead through influence facilitate technical consensus among senior peers and drive team velocity.
Transformative AI Proficiency: Demonstrable experience using modern AI tools (e.g. Claude Code Cursor) to accelerate the SDLC and automate complex task breakdowns.
Target Base Salary Range:$140000 USD - $180000 USD
Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate
Note: Candidate must be in the Chicago office 2 days per week.
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Basic Requirements
Bachelors degree with 5 years of full stack engineering and Python experience
AND 3 years of Java experience
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.
Travel Requirements
None
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
NoOur :
Incentive Bonus Plans
Medical Dental Visionbenefits
401K with Company Match
10 Paid Holidays
GenerousPaidTime Off Packages
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
PaidParental & Family Leave
and more!
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.
Were committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation please complete thisReasonable Accommodations Formso we can assist you.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
About Company
Motorola Solutions, Inc., incorporated on March 9, 1973, is a provider of communication infrastructure, devices, accessories, software and services. The Company operates through two segments: Products and Services. It serves global customer base spanning federal, state, county, provin ... View more
