Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Senior software engineer building core platform components, developer tools, and reliability capabilities that improve engineering productivity. Requires 4+ years of software engineering experience, cloud or platform exposure, and strong knowledge of databases, distributed systems, observability, and production reliability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Architect, scope, and build core platform components from the ground up.
- Identify and drive new initiatives while mentoring junior engineers.
- Partner with engineers across teams to design elegant, flexible, and forward-looking solutions.
- Build reliable, observable, self-service internal tools and services that improve developer productivity.
- Apply AI to developer tools, internal workflows, and automated engineering processes.
- Monitor cloud applications, respond to incidents, and improve production reliability and observability.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful exposure to cloud infrastructure, platform systems, or developer-facing tools.
- Experience working across server-side languages and frameworks; Python and Django are used in practice.
- Understanding of relational databases, transactions, distributed systems, and reliability tradeoffs.
- Ability to scope ambiguous work and independently drive complex projects.
- Strong collaboration, communication, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and broad ownership.
Nice-to-Haves
- Early-stage startup experience.
Compensation and Benefits
- $180,000–$230,000 annual salary plus equity.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits; the company covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums.
- HSA and FSA plans.
- Paid parental leave and other family-friendly policies.
- Flexible schedule.
- Flexible paid time off and sick leave.
- 401(k).
Skills
Python, Django, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Systems, Developer Tools, Distributed Systems, Relational Databases, Transactions, Observability, Incident Response, AI, Integration Testing, Release Tooling
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