Outtake

Software Engineer, Platform

Outtake
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Base Salary

$160k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the systems, tools, primitives, and internal platforms that product engineers rely on daily.
  • Build developer tooling and shared infrastructure that improve workflows, reliability, and engineering velocity.
  • Turn repeated patterns and one-off fixes into durable platforms, abstractions, and systems.
  • Develop and implement a point of view on how engineers should work through code, tooling, and sensible defaults.
  • Build infrastructure that enables faster product development across teams.
  • Help define the platform’s direction and advise leadership on its evolution.
  • Serve as an engineering enabler and a trusted resource when systems are unclear or behaving unexpectedly.

Requirements

  • Track record of building and owning foundational systems that other engineers depended on.
  • Ability to ramp quickly, operate amid ambiguity, and make progress without fully specified problems.
  • Judgment to balance ideal solutions with execution speed.
  • Preference for systemic fixes and leverage over one-off solutions.
  • Clear point of view on effective engineering workflows and the ability to turn it into code, tooling, and defaults.
  • Experience working closely with other engineers or teams as an enabler.
  • Nice to have: experience building or owning internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure.
  • Nice to have: experience with agentic systems, LLM platforms, or large-scale data ingestion pipelines.

Benefits

  • For employees in New York, in-person work five days per week from the Brooklyn waterfront office, with flexibility as needed.
  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.

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About Outtake

51-200 employees

Outtake builds an AI-driven digital trust platform for enterprises to detect, monitor, and take down online impersonation and fraud—covering deepfakes, phishing, fake domains, cloned apps, malicious ads, and dark-web activity. It sells its software and takedown services to brands and executive-security teams on a subscription basis. The company is privately held and headquartered in New York City.

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