Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• Architect, scope, and build core platform systems and services from the ground up.
• Create reliable, observable, extensible, and self-service internal tools for product engineers.
• Improve scalability, performance, fault tolerance, production reliability, and developer productivity.
• Identify and drive new technical initiatives while mentoring junior engineers.
• Partner with engineering teams to design flexible solutions and support future use cases.
• Apply AI to build developer tools, internal workflows, and automated engineering processes.
• Monitor cloud applications, respond to incidents, and improve 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.
• Experience monitoring cloud applications, responding to incidents, and improving production reliability and observability.
• Understanding of relational databases, transactions, distributed systems, and reliability tradeoffs.
• Ability to scope ambiguous work and independently drive complex projects while collaborating across the organization.
• Ability to communicate clearly, incorporate feedback, and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Early-stage startup experience is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits with 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered by Maybern.
• HSA and FSA plans.
• Family-friendly policies and paid parental leave.
• Flexible schedule and flexible PTO/sick leave.
• Work from home as needed.
• 401(k).
• NYC-based company with a strong in-office culture.