Sr Software Engineer II
Pax8, Inc.7 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$170k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards for a major product domain across multiple teams.
- Design dependable distributed systems using event-driven and cloud-native patterns.
- Establish standards for distributed tracing, structured logging, service-level objectives, alerting, and production reliability.
- Lead technical design reviews and document architectural decisions and trade-offs.
- Create system-level solutions that improve engineering productivity and remove recurring technical problems.
- Partner with product and data science colleagues on scalable technical designs.
- Define engineering quality measures covering testing, deployments, incidents, and recovery.
- Own critical systems throughout their lifecycle and participate in on-call support when required.
- Mentor engineers in system design, software quality, domain ownership, and responsible AI-tool usage.
- Define safeguards and review expectations for AI-assisted development and evaluate emerging development tools.
Requirements
- Extensive software engineering experience owning complex production systems and providing technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Expert proficiency in Python and TypeScript and deep knowledge of a significant product or technical domain.
- Extensive distributed-systems experience, including event sourcing, command query responsibility segregation, microservices, and service mesh patterns.
- Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and platform reliability engineering.
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, developer experience, or engineering productivity initiatives.
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and improving technical judgment, documentation, and delivery practices.
- Advanced capability with AI coding tools for complex analysis, multi-file changes, automated test generation, and large-scale refactoring.
- Understanding of AI limitations, human-review requirements, data classification, privacy, bias mitigation, fairness, transparency, and output validation.
- Experience writing technical proposals and architectural decision records.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; postgraduate study may be valuable but is not required.
- Ability to maintain adequate, secure, and private internet service for remote work and flexibility for infrequent travel.
- Must hold valid authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Target base salary of $170,000–$185,000 or more depending on experience.
- Non-commissioned bonus plans or variable commission and stock option eligibility.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
- Flexible open vacation, paid sick time off, and paid parental or extended life-event leave.
- Career development programs, learning and development resources, internal development hub, mentors, and AI-powered development tools.
- Employee-led resource groups.
- Remote within the United States, with infrequent travel when collaboration or business needs require it.
- RTD EcoPass for eligible Colorado-based employees.
- Pre-employment identity, reference, qualification, and other applicable checks are required.
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