Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms

Compass-posted 4 days ago
$111,000 - $167,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Boston, MA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
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The Engineering Platforms team provides the foundational infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products with confidence, speed, and clarity. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that shape the future of our entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and developer empowerment. You bring expert-level industry skills in large-scale platform systems. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient solutions while fostering collaboration and technical excellence. Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by example-innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of engineering at our company.

  • Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal developer platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience.
  • Architect, scale, and maintain our platform's core features-including CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observability-to meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization.
  • Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity.
  • Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem.
  • Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them.
  • Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs.
  • BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems.
  • Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, or TypeScript.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale services on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and Kubernetes architecture.
  • Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and lead complex projects.
  • Deep experience with modern, large-scale platform components and services (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, internal developer portals, service meshes).
  • Expertise in OpenTelemetry (OTel) or other observability tools, with a strong understanding of how they fit into a broader platform strategy.
  • Experience architecting and executing a large-scale migration between major platform components or systems.
  • Familiarity with building AI-driven operational tools, leveraging LLMs for tasks like log summarization or creating agentic workflows for automation.
  • A deep understanding of one or more of these domains: Designing and implementing systems that drive productivity, scalability, and quality across an entire engineering organization; Managing the full lifecycle of an internal developer platform as a product, from API design to driving user adoption.
  • Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
  • Full range of benefits.
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