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Software Engineer - Platform Team
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Posted about 1 month ago
Full Time
San Francisco, California
$170,000 Annually
Overview
Our client is building a high-performance infrastructure platform focused on distributed systems and real-time resource allocation. This role sits at the core of the platform, owning the systems responsible for orchestration, pricing, and capacity management in a fast-moving, high-scale environment.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a backend-leaning engineer with 3+ years of experience (ideally 5–8) working on distributed systems in production environments. This person should be comfortable operating as a generalist across platform infrastructure and capable of owning systems end-to-end.
You should have a strong foundation in concurrency, asynchronous systems, and reliability, with experience building and maintaining systems at scale.
Required Experience
Seniority
Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Terraform
What Success Looks Like
You’ll quickly take ownership of critical platform systems, improve reliability and performance, and help scale infrastructure that directly impacts core product functionality and revenue generation.
Our client is building a high-performance infrastructure platform focused on distributed systems and real-time resource allocation. This role sits at the core of the platform, owning the systems responsible for orchestration, pricing, and capacity management in a fast-moving, high-scale environment.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a backend-leaning engineer with 3+ years of experience (ideally 5–8) working on distributed systems in production environments. This person should be comfortable operating as a generalist across platform infrastructure and capable of owning systems end-to-end.
You should have a strong foundation in concurrency, asynchronous systems, and reliability, with experience building and maintaining systems at scale.
Required Experience
Seniority
- 3+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering
- Shipped and maintained production backend systems at scale
- Built distributed systems handling concurrency and race conditions
- Experience working in either large-scale tech environments or VC-backed startups
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with containerization and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, or observability tooling)
- Experience with marketplace, auction, exchange, or billing systems
- Exposure to pricing models, allocation systems, or real-time decision engines
- Build and evolve core platform systems responsible for real-time allocation and orchestration
- Own distributed systems across reservation management, capacity allocation, and pricing logic
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure user requests map cleanly to backend infrastructure
- Improve system reliability, resiliency, and operational maturity across the platform
- Contribute to infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environment management
- Ship features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring
- Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response
- Build automation and runbooks to reduce operational overhead over time
Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Terraform
What Success Looks Like
You’ll quickly take ownership of critical platform systems, improve reliability and performance, and help scale infrastructure that directly impacts core product functionality and revenue generation.
