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HoverHoverSan Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Builds infrastructure platform using code to support engineering teams with Kubernetes, cloud, and deployment tooling. Requires 5+ years experience in distributed systems, Go/Python/Ruby, and IaC tools like Terraform on GCP/AWS.

194k – 239k
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and build platform capabilities that standardize how services run, improve deployment workflows, and simplify infrastructure usage.
  • Develop tooling, automate infrastructure, and improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with backend, frontend, ML, CV, data, and security engineers to bring ideas to production at scale.
  • Build systems and tooling that eliminate manual work and help engineers move faster.

Requirements

  • 5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with production experience in Go, Python, or Ruby.
  • Experience building or working with systems on Kubernetes, beyond simply deploying applications.
  • Experience working with containerized systems such as Docker.
  • Experience building or using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (or similar tools like Ansible or Chef).
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, with willingness to learn or deepen expertise in GCP.
  • A systems-oriented mindset; think about reliability, observability, failure modes, and scalability when designing systems.
  • Experience collaborating with engineers across teams to build platform capabilities or improve developer experience.
  • Comfort working across multiple layers of the infrastructure stack and learning new tools and technologies.

Compensation

  • US base salary range: $194,000 - $239,000 annually.
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity.

Skills

GoPythonRubyKubernetesDockerTerraformGCPAWSInfrastructure As Code

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