Senior Software Engineer

Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Infra

Location:
New York City or San Francisco

Work Policy:
Hybrid (Minimum 3 Days In-Office)

Compensation:
$211k – $248k Base + Competitive Equity

About the Role

A rapidly scaling enterprise AI company used by major healthcare systems is hiring
Senior / Staff Infrastructure Engineers
to help scale the core platform powering millions of real-world interactions each month.

The engineering organization is entering a
hyperscale phase
, and this role focuses on improving
performance, reliability, and scalability across distributed systems
.

This position sits at the intersection of
software engineering and infrastructure
, with the work split roughly
80% software development and 20% infrastructure
.

Engineers in this role partner closely with product and platform teams to improve system performance, evolve infrastructure architecture, and enable teams to ship faster as platform adoption continues to grow.

What You’ll Do

- Improve system
performance and latency
using profiling, load testing, and observability tooling
- Identify bottlenecks in distributed systems and implement
scalability improvements at the application level
- Drive architectural changes that migrate services to more scalable infrastructure (event-driven systems, improved runtimes, optimized databases)
- Build internal tools that increase engineering velocity and developer productivity
- Help product teams adopt scalable infrastructure patterns and platform tooling
- Establish and enforce
SLOs, error budgets, and reliability standards
across services
- Improve incident response through better monitoring, runbooks, and operational tooling
- Evangelize
cloud-native architecture and distributed systems best practices
internally

Who You Are

- 5–10 years
of backend or infrastructure software engineering experience
- Strong experience building or operating
distributed systems at production scale
- Track record of improving
system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Experience working in
high-growth technology environments or high-scale engineering organizations
- Strong coding ability in
Python or TypeScript
- Experience working with
cloud infrastructure and containerized systems
- Strong system design skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Interest in
platform engineering, infrastructure tooling, and engineering enablement
- Based in or willing to work
in-person 3 days per week in NYC or San Francisco

Tech Stack

• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Python
• TypeScript
• Datadog / Grafana

The team is actively scaling infrastructure and hiring multiple engineers with an accelerated interview process.