Pave

Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Lead developer platform initiatives end to end, including CI/CD and observability standards, local development workflows, and incident response.
  • Define how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into development from scaffolding through review and deployment.
  • Partner with product and data engineering teams to remove friction and improve developer velocity.
  • Own developer velocity and reliability metrics and be accountable for improving them.
  • Help establish reliable, secure, and scalable software development practices across Pave Engineering.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.
  • Strong developer empathy and a focus on improving workflows and enabling engineering teams.
  • Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects with cross-team impact.
  • Experience improving developer velocity with modern AI tooling, including agentic coding and AI-assisted review or testing.
  • Solid understanding of cloud architecture, including GCP or similar platforms.
  • Strong instincts for reliability and security, particularly when handling sensitive compensation data.
  • Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills with experience scaling production systems.
  • Experience building internal developer platforms in enterprise SaaS environments is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work culture with teams together in person 3 to 4 days per week.
  • Company-wide Team Sync every Friday with breakfast, new-hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and occasional Kahoot.
  • Regional hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Salt Lake City, Kraków, and the United Kingdom.

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About Pave

201-500 employees

Pave builds a SaaS compensation platform for HR, finance, and total rewards teams to benchmark pay, run merit cycles, and communicate total rewards. It combines internal data with market intelligence from 9,000+ companies and integrates with common HR systems; customers include Stripe, Atlassian, and Databricks. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company sells its software on a subscription basis.

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