The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll influence product areas, design scalable architectures, mentor teams, and adopt modern practices in digital forensics software development.
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Who We Are; What We Do; Where We’re Going
Magnet Forensics is a global leader in the development of digital investigative software that acquires, analyzes, and shares evidence from computers, smartphones, tablets, and IoT-related devices. We are continually innovating so our customers can deploy advanced and effective tools to protect their companies, communities, and countries.
Serving thousands of customers globally, our solutions are playing a crucial role in modernizing digital investigations, helping investigators fight crime, protect assets, and guard national security.
With employees based around the world, Magnet Forensics has been expanding our global presence. As a part of Magnet Forensics, you can expect to make a difference in the world, no matter what role you play. You’ll be supported through learning and development, not to mention an incredible team with unbelievable talent and integrity.
If you think you would be the right person to join our team working towards this goal, we would love to hear from you!
Role Summary
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to influence, elevate, and accelerate an entire product area. You’re someone who can dive into complex distributed systems, design scalable architectures, and still enjoy rolling up your sleeves to ship high‑quality code. You’ve led modernization efforts, improved developer experience, and helped teams adopt better patterns at scale.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll shape the next generation of digital forensics collaboration tools used by agencies around the world. Our mission is to help investigators, analysts, and stakeholders work together more effectively in high‑stakes environments, and your technical leadership will directly impact that mission.
This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You’ll guide engineering direction, influence cross‑team decisions, and help the team adopt modern practices, including the thoughtful use of AI throughout the SDLC and product experience.
NOTE: Candidates must reside in The United States or Canada.
Why You’ll Love This Role?
- Your impact is immediate and far‑reaching. The systems you design will support investigations where minutes matter.
- You’ll solve meaningful technical challenges. Distributed systems, large‑scale data processing, and performance optimization.
- You’ll elevate the team. Through mentorship, architectural guidance, and leading by example, you’ll help engineers deliver their best work.
- You’ll help shape how AI is used responsibly and effectively across our product and engineering practices.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, ideally across both backend (C# or similar) and frontend (React or similar).
- 4+ years of experience shipping pragmatic SaaS solutions to production, balancing technical vision with delivery.
- Strong architectural skills: distributed systems, API design, data modeling, and secure system design.
- Excellent mentorship and leadership skills, with the ability to guide and challenge senior developers.
- Hands‑on experience deploying and operating services in Kubernetes, including containerization, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Proficiency with relational and/or distributed data stores (MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.).
- Clear and confident communication: you can explain tradeoffs, document patterns, and build trust across Engineering, Product, and UX.
- You influence hands‐on technical work, demonstrating new approaches, validating them in practice, and guiding teams as they adopt them.
- Enthusiasm and experience for using agentic AI and other modern practices as a key part of the SDLC.
Nice To Have Skills:
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Argo).
- Experience building secure systems in high‑security or regulated environments.
- Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience with domain‑driven design and modular architecture.
- Understanding of AI systems, including LLM architectures, token generation, and MCP frameworks.
Compensation & Benefits:
- The Compensation Range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. Please note that the actual compensation may vary depending on location and job-related factors such as qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location and you are selected for an interview, the Talent Acquisition Partner can share more information with you. If the compensation structure for the role includes an incentive component (ie. most Sales roles) the range below represents total target compensation (TTC) (base salary + variable).
- MIN: $154,000 - MID: $220,000 - MAX: $264,000 USD
- MIN: $137,900 - MID: $197,000 - MAX: $236,400 CAD
Compensation Range:
Magnet Forensics is proud to offer Benefits such as:
- Generous Time Off Policies
- Competitive Compensation
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Reward and Recognition Programs
- Employee Committees & Resource Groups
- Healthcare and Retirement Benefits
The Most Important Thing
We’re looking for candidates that can provide examples of how they have demonstrated Magnet CODE in their previous experiences:
CARE – We care about each other and our mission to make a difference in the world.
OWN – We are accountable for our results – while never forgetting to act with integrity, empathy, and respect.
DEDICATE – We put our heart and soul into meeting the needs of our customers and helping them serve the people they protect.
EVOLVE – We are constantly innovating and exploring new ways to work together to make an impact with our work.
Here at Magnet Forensics, we are committed to continuous learning and are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. This commitment will be reflected in our hiring processes and embedded in our values and how we treat one another. If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet all of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply anyways.
Magnet Forensics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and work environment. Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request throughout the hiring process. Please contact [email protected] should you require any accommodations.
All offers of employment at Magnet are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check. All background checks will be conducted in accordance with all applicable laws. Magnet will consider each position’s job duties, among other factors, in determining what constitutes satisfactory completion of the background check. Refusal to consent to a background check may be grounds for revoking an offer of employment.
US Applicants: Magnet Forensics participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Top Skills
Argo
C#
Elasticsearch
Grafana
Helm
Kubernetes
MySQL
Opentelemetry
Prometheus
React
Redis
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Magnet Forensics is a global leader in the development of digital investigation software that acquires, analyzes and shares evidence from computers, smartphones, tablets and IoT related devices.
Magnet Forensics has been helping law enforcement fight crime, protect assets and guard national security since 2009. Magnet Forensics has become a trusted partner for thousands of the world’s top law enforcement, government, military and corporate organizations in over 92 countries. Court-admissible evidence recovered by Magnet Forensics tools has been used to support a wide-variety of investigations including cybercrimes, child exploitation, terrorism, human resource disputes, fraud, and intellectual property theft.
For more information, please visit https://www.magnetforensics.com
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