Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff Engineer role sits in a core SaaS problem space: making a customer-facing web surface reliable, observable, and secure as it evolves. With Dashlane’s product delivered through a web extension and platform layer, the work naturally intersects with release confidence, performance budgets, and the operational realities of running software that must behave consistently across browsers and environments.
For a SaaS engineering career, the differentiator here is platform leverage. The remit spans quality-by-design, CI/CD guardrails, and SLI and SLO definition, which are the mechanisms mature SaaS teams use to translate product expectations into measurable engineering outcomes. Experience shaping test strategy, instrumentation standards, and cross-team decision making tends to transfer well across SaaS companies because it builds fluency in reliability trade-offs, not just feature delivery.
This is best suited to an engineer who prefers influence over ownership of a single service, and who enjoys diagnosing systemic issues that slow teams down. It aligns with someone comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with coaching and architectural direction, and who is motivated by improving how multiple teams ship and operate web software over time.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the role
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to elevate the reliability, performance, and quality-by-design of Dashlane’s Web Platform. This is a high-impact technical leadership role, shaping long-term architectural direction while enabling teams to deliver faster and more confidently at scale.
As a Staff Engineer, you will act as a trusted advisor and technical multiplier, designing platform-level quality and observability capabilities, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and embedding a security-first, reliability-driven culture. You will combine deep expertise in quality and testing with broad web and platform engineering knowledge to drive sustainable, measurable improvements to our engineering standards and user experience.
Location:
You will be based in Lisbon, with English as your working language. At Dashlane, we embrace a hybrid culture that combines the best of both worlds: the creativity and energy of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Our model is designed to strengthen team connections while supporting individual productivity and work-life balance. To maximize collaboration, we come together in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, while Wednesdays and Fridays offer more flexibility for focused work.
About our stack:
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Programming language: Typescript, Javascript, React, RxJS
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Quality: Sonarqube, ESLint
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Testing: Jest, Karma, WebdriverIO, Cucumber
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Build: Webpack
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Versioning: Gitlab
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Monitoring: ELK, Tableau
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Documentation and tooling: Confluence, Gitlab, Zoom, Slack
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Misc: Gitlab CI, PNPM, Miro
At Dashlane you will:
- Drive the long-term technical vision for Web Platform quality and reliability, shaping architecture with a strong focus on performance, testability, security, and quality-by-design.
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Design and enable platform-level quality capabilities (testing frameworks, observability standards, CI/CD guardrails, and tooling) that empower multiple teams to ship faster, safer, and with higher confidence.
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Act as a technical leader and multiplier, identifying systemic gaps, driving high-leverage improvements, and ensuring measurable outcomes in Web Platform reliability, stability, and engineering standards.
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Define, implement, and evolve SLIs and SLOs from a web perspective, ensuring reliability and performance targets are aligned with user experience and business priorities.
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Raise the engineering bar across teams by coaching, mentoring, and influencing engineers, while continuously learning and sharing knowledge to foster a culture of technical curiosity, craftsmanship, security, and engineering excellence.
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Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and cross-functional teams, influencing prioritization and decision-making by clearly articulating trade-offs between engineering excellence and business needs.
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Lead and optimize end-to-end testing strategies, improving test effectiveness, execution speed, and confidence in production releases at scale.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- 3+ years of experience with JavaScript or TypeScript development
- 3+ years of experience with frameworks such as React, AngularJS or VueJS
- 4+ years of experience working in a product-focused company
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team
- Fluency in English
We're Also Looking For:
- Prior experience defining and implementing SLIs and SLOs from web perspective, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end testing best practices and test framework optimization to improve quality and execution speed
- Willingness to develop a T-shaped skill set, combining deep expertise in quality and observability with broad platform and web engineering knowledge
- Experience with web extensions and their specific monitoring challenges
What Dashlane offers you:
- Flex Benefits - allocate a monthly amount to a pool of benefits
- Health insurance covered by Dashlane
- 5 extra vacation days each year, plus your birthday off
- Company wide well-being days (one per quarter)
- Equal Parental leave - up to 20 weeks fully paid leave, within the first year of birth or adoption
- Work schedule exemption - plan your work schedule in alignment with your manager
- Donation matching program - Dashlane will match your donations to organizations driving positive impact in historically marginalized communities
- Access mental health services through Spring Health, available for you and your family members
- Team building & social events - weekly lunch in the office and monthly happy hour
- and much more
