# Senior Software Engineer, Platform
**Company:** [Finch](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/finch)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, SRE, DevOps
**Posted:** 2026-02-06
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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.
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