Software Engineer (Core Infrastructure)
Browserbaseover 1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and grow the Browserbase Core platform through robust, scalable distributed backends and developer-friendly APIs.
- Partner with engineering teams by gathering input and providing platform support.
- Define, scope, review, prioritize, and sequence infrastructure projects and roadmap deliverables.
- Establish development, operations, and reliability best practices.
- Enhance the platform to support increasing customer adoption and demand.
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production operational issues.
- Document systems and share knowledge with the team.
Requirements
- Deep experience building and scaling distributed systems across hundreds or thousands of instances.
- Strong coding expertise in Go or TypeScript; experience with Firecracker or similar virtual machine monitors is a bonus.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, message queues, relational databases, automated testing, performance optimization, and zero-downtime multi-region deployments.
- Ability to set technical direction, independently drive projects, make sound decisions in unfamiliar systems, and collaborate clearly with engineering teams.
- Must be willing to work five days per week at the San Francisco headquarters or relocate there.
Benefits
- Work five days per week at the San Francisco headquarters, with relocation encouraged for candidates not currently local.
- Opportunity to work on challenging modern infrastructure problems with a small, high-performing engineering team.
- Immediate impact building core technology used across Browserbase products.
Tech Stack
About Browserbase
Browserbase builds a cloud platform and APIs for hosting, controlling, and monitoring headless browsers and web-browsing agents, used by developers and AI teams to read, write, and automate websites. The service provides managed browser infrastructure, session management, and tooling to build proofs of concept and production automations without operating your own fleet. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, it sells a usage-based SaaS to engineering, data, and growth teams that need reliable web automation at scale.