Staff Software Engineer

Location: Remote, United States

Department: Engineering

Work Location: remote local

We are seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across product areas. You will shape architecture, guide complex engineering initiatives, and help teams deliver scalable, secure, and reliable software.

This remote role is based in USA/Canada and requires strong collaboration across distributed engineering, product, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, highly available systems and platforms.
- Define architectural direction, engineering standards, and technical best practices across teams.
- Drive large technical initiatives such as modernization, cloud transformation, platform scalability, and developer productivity improvements.
- Lead technical planning, design reviews, and risk mitigation for cross-team initiatives.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering Managers, Architects, and stakeholders to turn business goals into sustainable technical solutions.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical leadership, design practices, and knowledge sharing across the organization.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, including leadership of technical initiatives.
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and C# in enterprise-scale applications.
- Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.
- Strong AWS and/or Azure experience, including security, observability, automation, and production operations.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, DevOps practices, and Terraform.
- Deep understanding of scalability, performance, resilience, and reliability engineering.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building or operating production AI/LLM-enabled applications, such as model integrations, evaluation frameworks, or AI-assisted developer tooling.
- Experience with highly available SaaS production systems.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.

We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

About Intelex

Since 1992, Intelex Technologies, ULC. is a global leader in the development and support of software solutions for Environment, Health, Safety and Quality (EHSQ) programs. Our scalable, web-based software provides clients with unprecedented flexibility in managing, tracking and reporting on essential corporate information. Intelex software easily integrates with common ERP systems like SAP and PeopleSoft creating a seamless solution for enterprise-wide information management. Intelex’s friendly, knowledgeable staff ensures our almost 1400 clients and over 3.5 million users from companies across the globe get the most out of our groundbreaking, user-friendly software solutions. Visit www.intelex.com to learn more.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.

Bonus or Equity
This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 137,200.00 - 229,100.00