Software Engineer, Services Platform

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Engineer, Services Platform

Description

As a Software Engineer, Services Platform, you will build platform-level primitives that help product teams avoid brittle systems and instead deliver resilient services. Focus areas include service provisioning, deploy tooling, workflow orchestration, and defining what it means to own and operate a service. You will work at the intersection of developer experience and production reliability.

Responsibilities

• Establish durable, first-class workflow orchestration by defining best practices, shared abstractions, and a standard for reliable long-running workflows

• Design a declarative service configuration framework to make it easy to provision, deploy, and operate new services (days to minutes)

• Define the contract for service ownership, including integration with platform infrastructure abstractions and how the service catalogue enables incident resolution

Requirements

• Experience building internal developer platforms, service frameworks, or infrastructure abstractions that other engineers depend on

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience with Temporal, durable workflow engines, or similar orchestration systems; strong opinions on best practices

• Strong focus on developer experience, designing for simplicity and correctness

• Experience with deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or service mesh architectures

• Understanding of microservice vs. monolith tradeoffs and practical guidance for service decomposition

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production systems that improve organizational productivity

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual salary range: $140,000 – $225,000 USD (case-by-case based on knowledge, skills, education, and experience)

• Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

• 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and additional discounts/perks