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Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

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Base Salary

$170k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the compute platform, including container orchestration, networking, autoscaling, service topology, and ingress.
  • Own the data layer across Postgres, OpenSearch, and BigQuery, including performance, scaling, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
  • Build cloud-spend attribution and optimization across compute, data, and storage.
  • Define platform reliability practices, including SLOs, capacity planning, infrastructure observability, and incident response.
  • Build infrastructure-as-code, service patterns, and self-service primitives for product teams.

Requirements

  • Experience operating production Kubernetes at meaningful scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cluster reliability.
  • Deep AWS expertise, including EKS, VPC, and IAM boundaries.
  • Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience focused on platforms and reusable primitives.
  • Experience completing a low-downtime database migration and operating a relational database such as Postgres under production load.
  • Ability to reason from query plans to capacity plans and simplify complex systems.
  • Comfort operating in a regulated, high-stakes environment; familiarity with PHI, HIPAA, or SOC 2 is a strong plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to move quickly, find shortcuts, and deliver ambitious goals.

Benefits

  • Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
  • Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
  • Unlimited paid time off and 16 weeks of parental leave.
  • 401(k) plan, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
  • Lunch at the office every day and dinner at the office after 6:30 p.m.
  • Meaningful equity for full-time employees.
  • Fully in-person work in New York.

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