# Software Engineer, Platform at Outtake

- Company: Outtake
- What the company does: Outtake is Next-Generation Digital Risk Protection. Agentic search across your full surface, workflows you control, intelligence that compounds with every takedown. Backed by CRV and ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://outtake.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/outtake/67a35d51-9e10-4803-a7a1-45f581b7f1a8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/outtake-software-engineer-platform/

## About the role

This is a platform engineering role. You will own the foundations that product engineers rely on every day, designing and maintaining the systems, tools, and primitives that determine how fast, safely, and confidently the team can ship. Your work directly influences developer workflows, reliability, and day-to-day engineering velocity.

## What they're looking for

- A track record of building and owning foundational systems that other engineers depended on, along with experience living with the consequences of those decisions
- The ability to ramp quickly, operate in ambiguity, and make progress without needing problems fully specified up front
- An understanding of the tension between ideal solutions and velocity, and the judgment to know when to pursue one over the other
- An instinct for leverage, with a preference for systemic fixes over one-off solutions
- A clear point of view on how engineers should work, and the drive to turn that into code, tooling, and defaults
- Experience working closely with other engineers or teams as an enabler, not just as an implementer

Tags: Engineering