Staff Software Engineer
Playground14 days ago
Base Salary
$250k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Enhance deployment pipelines, security measures, and infrastructure scalability.
- Optimize Vite configurations to improve build times, reduce bundle sizes, and improve developer experience.
- Maintain clear separation between development, staging, and production environments while supporting critical issue debugging.
- Implement and maintain centralized queryable logging for system debugging and analysis.
- Improve real-time service uptime monitoring and alerting using tools such as Google Cloud Monitoring, PostHog, and Sentry.
- Maintain internal developer tools, CI/CD automation, and workflow enhancements.
- Apply security best practices across deployment and infrastructure processes.
- Document configurations, processes, and best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering focused on frontend systems.
- Proficiency with React.
- Proficiency with modern deployment tools and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong experience with Vite, monorepos, and frontend build-tool optimization.
- Experience with logging and monitoring solutions such as Sentry, Datadog, or Google Cloud Monitoring.
- Deep understanding of security best practices and infrastructure resilience.
- Strong problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity are offered.
- Three weeks of paid time off are provided.
- Health, vision, and dental benefits are provided.
- A $1,200 per year education stipend is provided.
- Free lunch is provided daily.
- A new MacBook is provided.
- The role offers autonomy, growth opportunities, and a collaborative work culture.
- The position is fully in-office in Union Square, NYC.
About Playground
Playground is child care management software that manages billing, attendance, registration, communication, paperwork, payroll and more for childcare programs.