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Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Senior platform engineer leading infrastructure projects, establishing standards, and mentoring teams on AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Requires 7+ years backend experience with 3+ in platform/SRE/DevOps, strong prioritization, and communication skills.

San Francisco, CADevOps / SREHybrid7+ YOE

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Live by and champion our values: #empathy, #execution, #humility, #curiosity.
  • Lead critical infrastructure projects and drive architectural decisions that will span across multiple teams ranging from problem definition/scoping to execution and see it through to successful and smooth delivery of impactful solutions.
  • Establish platform engineering standards and partner with product teams on reliability, performance, and architecture.
  • Be hands on in various parts of the system like AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling and application layer.
  • Communicate platform priorities and trade-offs to engineering leadership and help them with building a prioritized roadmap.
  • Mentor other engineers who need technical guidance.

What You'll Bring

  • 7+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles.
  • Experience managing large backlogs and making prioritization trade-offs.
  • Proven ability to stabilize unreliable systems (CI, infrastructure, observability).
  • Mentorship experience—you'll guide engineers who need technical leadership.
  • Strong communication skills to advocate for platform needs and explain trade-offs.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy—you'll define what "good" looks like.
  • Ability to balance tech debt paydown with new feature delivery.

Success Looks Like

  • Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis, or similar, at scale.
  • Strong debugging skills across application, infrastructure, and networking.
  • Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus.
  • CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
  • Experience working AWS Services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform strongly preferred).
  • Kubernetes (deployments, scaling, troubleshooting, security).
  • Experience using a distributed messaging system.
  • Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).

What We Offer

  • Competitive equity with a 10-year exercise window.
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees, 85% for dependents).
  • Unlimited PTO (with a 3-week minimum).
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Regular team offsites and meetups.
  • Hybrid work: 2+ days/week in our SF Office.

Skills

Node.jsPostgresRedisAWSTerraformKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsSREDevOps

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