[10/27/2025 A] Staff Software Engineer

About the Opportunity

Shutterstock is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (SE 4) to join our TurboSquid 3D team, which powers the systems and workflows behind the world’s leading collection of 3D models. Our mission is to streamline and scale the processes that bring high-quality 3D content from creators to customers across films, games, architecture, advertising, and more.

You will collaborate with a talented team of engineers to solve complex challenges in content management, search, automation, and performance. This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer who thrives on technical leadership, architectural ownership, and mentoring others. We value quality, reliability, and scalability at every step, and we foster a culture of peer review, shared learning, and customer focus. Every system we build is designed to make it easier for artists to contribute and for customers to discover great 3D content.

What You’ll Do

- Lead the design and evolution of systems that support 3D asset ingestion, validation, and management.

- Architect and optimize search infrastructure to improve the speed, accuracy, and discoverability of 3D assets across the platform.

- Shape architectural decisions that impact the entire 3D content pipeline and related data systems.

- Implement and maintain scalable, well-tested, and observable full-stack applications and APIs.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team.

- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and content experts to improve contributor and internal workflows.

- Monitor, analyze, and optimize system performance and scalability.

What You’ll Bring

- Extensive experience in full-stack software development.

- Expertise in search and data systems such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

- Strong proficiency with web frameworks such as Rails, Django, or React.

- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.

- Proficiency with Git and GitHub for source control and collaboration.

- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and guide architectural direction.

- Strong mentorship and communication skills, with experience conducting constructive code reviews.

- Commitment to building maintainable, testable, and high-quality software.

Bonus Skills

- Familiarity with 3D technologies, such as WebGL, Three.js, Blender, and common 3D file formats.

- Experience with TypeScript, JSON:API, or GraphQL.

- Experience deploying to or managing AWS environments.

- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

- Experience with event-driven architectures using tools such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.

Why Shutterstock

- You have a direct impact on the success of the company. Your team’s work matters and is essential to the evolution of our core business

- Executive leadership cares personally. They prioritize growth and planning your career path with your goals and passions in mind.

- Flexibility to work between home and office with everything you need to be successful in both.

- A generous and competitive benefits package.

Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accommodation_request@shutterstock.com.

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