Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate database and storage platform software.
• Build services, APIs, and developer tools for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, upgrades, and lifecycle operations.
• Solve database scaling and performance problems while protecting correctness, durability, and availability.
• Work across application code, databases, distributed systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering teams on schema design, query patterns, and platform adoption.
• Modernize data-store platforms and reduce operational toil.
• Lead technical projects from problem framing through implementation, testing, rollout, and operational ownership.
• Participate in on-call, incident response, production debugging, and technical tradeoff decisions.
• Use AI tools to accelerate development and system understanding with careful review and testing.

Requirements

• At least five years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, three years with a master’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience building and operating backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including meaningful production experience with relational databases.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across unfamiliar systems, codebases, and technical domains.
• Understanding of transactions, indexing, replication, schema evolution, and query performance.
• Experience in areas such as database infrastructure, distributed storage, online migrations, cloud services, Kubernetes, observability, or developer tooling.
• Track record of turning ambiguous technical problems into clear plans and working solutions.
• Ability to debug production systems, explain technical tradeoffs, and partner across engineering teams.
• Interest in using AI as part of the engineering workflow.
• Curiosity, judgment, direct communication, and willingness to take ownership beyond a single component.

Benefits

• Remote work and a distributed work culture.
• Medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning benefits.
• Inclusive interview experience with reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants.
• U.S. roles are typically open for approximately 55 days, and candidates may submit up to nine active applications within a 60-day period.