Senior Software Engineer, Deploy at Scale

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a platform enabling safe, reliable, and automated deployments.
• Set technical direction across multiple work streams and drive multi-year architecture decisions.
• Shape multi-quarter roadmaps with engineering management and leadership.
• Lead cross-team design reviews, RFCs, and incident retrospectives related to deployment safety.
• Review designs, pair on complex problems, mentor engineers, and elevate technical standards without direct people management.
• Define platform capabilities and make tradeoffs for safety, speed, and scalability.
• Build toward automated, health-mediated deployments at hundreds of thousands of releases per day.
• Help consolidate release orchestration, health mediation, feature flagging, and configuration rollback into a unified platform.
• Determine appropriate applications of AI within deployment infrastructure and operations.
• Collaborate with internal customers to translate workflows into platform capabilities.
• Participate in on-call support outside standard working hours as needed.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience owning the architecture of complex, distributed, production-critical systems end to end.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through RFCs, design reviews, architecture, mentorship, or platform APIs and contracts.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous environments, including defining problems and roadmaps.
• Deep experience with production-system safety, observability, and automation, including rollback paths, health signals, and guardrails.
• Experience influencing technical direction across team boundaries without direct authority.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development and the ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output in safety-critical systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running or durable execution, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience owning a deployment, progressive delivery, or change-management platform at scale.
• Experience leading technical migrations across many independent teams.

Compensation and Benefits

• Eligible to participate in an equity plan.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter spending, fertility and family-forming support, mental health support, disability, life and accident insurance, 401(k), employee stock participation, flexible paid time off, and leave programs.