# Senior Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [Hover](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hover)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $194k – $239k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Ruby, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GCP, AWS, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-04-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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