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Staff Software Engineer, Partner Platform

265k – 330kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybrid8+ YOE
Summary

Staff engineer leading design and evolution of partner platform infrastructure, including data ingestion, APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems. Requires 8+ years backend experience, strong fundamentals, and cross-functional leadership in a fast-paced environment.

About the role

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Lead the technical design and evolution of key components of our partner platform infrastructure, including partner data ingestion and sharing systems, public APIs, and durable webhook delivery systems.
  • Drive end-to-end initiatives that improve the partner journey, from developer tooling and dashboards to the underlying platform systems that power ingestion, APIs, and real-time partner updates.
  • Set direction through technical vision, RFCs, and architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders across engineering, data, and product on priorities and tradeoffs.
  • Design and operate asynchronous, event-driven systems to reliably process partner data and deliver real-time updates to partner systems.
  • Raise the bar for engineering quality through mentoring, code review, and improving team processes, reliability practices, and on-call health.

What We’re Searching For

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend or platform systems.
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science (or related field).
  • Care deeply about building high-quality software and take immense pride in your craft.
  • Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional projects and making sound tradeoffs across reliability, scalability, developer experience, and time to value.
  • Comfortable owning and driving the development of both product and platform initiatives from scratch.
  • Take the initiative to identify commonalities between different problem statements and design appropriate abstractions accordingly.
  • Strong grasp of engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience building and operating asynchronous systems or data pipelines in production environments.
  • Excited about working on a small team and helping set the foundations for the company.

What We Offer

Salary Range: $265k - $330k Equity grant Medical, dental & vision insurance Work from home flexibility Unlimited PTO Commuter benefits Free lunches Paid parental leave 401(k) Employee assistance program

Skills
APIsWebhooksData PipelinesEvent-Driven SystemsDAGsBackend DevelopmentData IngestionAsynchronous SystemsArchitecture DesignPlatform Engineering
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