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About the role
For this role, the target base salary range in San Francisco is $156,000–$195,000 annually. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. In general, our ranges reflect the market-based target for new hire salaries based on the level and location of the role. Within the range, individual pay is determined by objective factors assessed during the application and interview process, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience with incident management, postmortems, and reliability improvement efforts in production environments
- Experience operating high-availability systems or supporting zero-downtime migrations
- Familiarity with event-driven or asynchronous systems such as Kafka/MSK, Kinesis, or SQS
- Experience building internal tools, CLIs, GitHub Actions, or workflow automation used by other engineers
- Familiarity with platform security and cloud security tools such as Wiz, Semgrep
- Experience modernizing legacy backend systems or improving shared platform architecture at scale
More about this role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Backend Platform organization. In this role, you will build and improve the foundational systems, tooling, and platform capabilities that support engineering across the company. You will work on shared services, internal developer workflows, production readiness, observability, and platform automation that help teams build and operate software more effectively.
This is a hands-on software engineering role for someone who enjoys solving systemic problems and building durable, scalable solutions. You will partner closely with teams across Backend Platform and product engineering to strengthen the reliability, maintainability, and usability of our platform.
Success in this role will be measured by the impact, continuous improvement, and adoption of platform capabilities across engineering teams.
- Design, build, and maintain platform tooling, automation, and services that improve engineering efficiency, system reliability, and operational excellence.
- Contribute to the design, operation, and evolution of foundational backend systems, shared services, and platform capabilities used by multiple teams.
- Improve observability...
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