# Software Engineer - Platform

**Company:** [Vesta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vesta)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $275k/yr
**Skills:** C#, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Terraform, Go, Java, Kotlin
**Posted:** 2026-03-07

> Builds and scales distributed platform systems for AI-powered mortgage origination, focusing on performance engineering across AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, databases, and observability tools. Senior-level role requiring full-stack ownership in early-stage startup.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Scale and mature platform to handle entire mortgage market.
- Work across entire codebase with primary focus on platform scaling.
- Help set guidelines and frameworks for engineering organization, including technical tooling and organizational growth.

## Requirements
- Deep experience scaling distributed systems with complex data dependencies.
- Performance engineering experience in: AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL (or similar relational database), Redis, Elasticsearch.
- Strong proficiency with **C#** or other statically typed languages such as **Kotlin**, **Go**, or **Java**.
- Familiarity with observability tools (**Datadog**) and infrastructure as code (**Terraform**).
- Comfortable in early-stage startup environment with occasional extra hours for mission-critical work.

## Perks & Benefits
- Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% employee premiums covered).
- FSA and 401(K) plans.
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave.
- Remote-first with Bay Area hub.
- Monthly stipends for cell, wifi, Doordash; flexible time off; company offsites.

**Cash compensation:** $200,000 - $250,000/yr (final offer based on experience).

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