Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Job requirements

• 6 or more years of professional software engineering experience, including several years operating in production what you built.

• A record of owning system level design rather than components alone. You have been the person accountable for how a whole system fits together.

• Deep experience with distributed systems, including failure modes you have personally debugged rather than only read about.

• Demonstrated coaching. Be ready to name engineers who grew because of how you worked with them, and to say what actually changed.

• Experience owning APIs that other teams depend on, including versioning and breaking change migrations.

• Excellent communication, particularly in writing. You can write a design document another team can act on without a meeting.

• Depth in at least one domain relevant to this team: data engineering, automation, developer tooling, AI enablement, or product engineering.

• Experience leading delivery across more than one team, without formal authority over the people involved.

• Strong fundamentals, and the judgement to recognize when the simple answer is the right one.

• Experience as a formal tech lead, or in a staff level role.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and infrastructure as code (AWS, Azure, or GCP; Kubernetes; Terraform).

• Experience with high volume data pipelines, streaming systems, or telemetry and time series data.

• Experience putting machine learning or LLM systems into production.

• Experience working close to physical infrastructure, where the software must account for hardware that fails.

Job responsibilities

• Own system design from end to end: the problem statement, architecture, interfaces, data model, and rollout, including the parts other engineers will build.

• Coach and develop the engineers around you. Give review that teaches, pair on hard problems, and hand over work that stretches people rather than keeping it because you would finish it faster.

• Own the API contracts between your systems and other teams: negotiate what they guarantee, version them, and manage the migration when they change.

• Set technical direction for your area, and write it down so other teams can build against it without needing a meeting first.

• Break large, ambiguous problems into work that a team can sequence, estimate, and deliver.

• Lead delivery across team boundaries, including the coordination and follow up that this actually requires.

• Stay hands on. Write and review code, and carry the pager for what you own.

• Own operations for your systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response, and the follow up that stops the same incident recurring.

• Be the person the company can ask about your domain, and make what you know available to others rather than holding it.

• Raise the standard through the systems around the code: CI/CD, observability, testing practice, and documentation.

Job benefits

• The expected base salary for this role USD $152,000 – $228,000/annum. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, and market data for the region.

• Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, and market data for the region.

• Total Compensation package may be inclusive of annual incentive bonus, equity (long-term incentive).

• Relocation or Living-out-allowance / per diem (as appliable and based on successful candidate circumstances)

• 100% company paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental, and vision) for employees, 75% company paid coverage for dependents

• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance

• Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available

• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) – when combined with the High Deductible Health Plan

• Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Access to financial planning and legal services

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

• Internal skills training and advancement pathways

• Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training

• Company events and team-building activities