Senior Software Engineer

New York, NY | $200K-$300K + Equity | On-site

We are working with an early-stage, venture-backed technology company building software and AI for a large, historically underserved industry. They're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep infrastructure and distributed systems experience to join a small engineering team in NYC. You'll work directly with the founders, owning major technical problems end-to-end and helping establish the architecture and engineering foundations of the company.

This is not a traditional DevOps/SRE role . They're looking for a software engineer who has built serious production systems and wants to own the infrastructure and platform underneath a rapidly scaling company.

What you'll do

• Design and build core platform and distributed systems from the ground up
• Own architecture decisions across backend systems and shared infrastructure
• Build multi-tenant infrastructure that scales efficiently as the business grows
• Own the path from commit → production, including CI/CD, testing, deployment workflows and developer tooling
• Establish observability, monitoring, reliability and incident-response practices
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions balancing speed today with scale tomorrow
• Build internal abstractions and tooling that make the entire engineering team faster
• Work directly with the CTO on the company's hardest technical problems

What we're looking for

• 6+ years of software engineering experience , with significant backend, platform, infrastructure or distributed systems depth
• Experience scaling production systems at a rapidly growing, VC-backed startup
• At least one recognizable growth-stage technology company on your background
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience operating systems at meaningful production scale
• Evidence of personally owning important architecture decisions - not simply operating infrastructure designed by others
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and taking problems from idea → architecture → implementation → production
• Experience with CI/CD, developer tooling, multi-tenant systems, observability or incident response is a plus

They're tech-stack agnostic and care much more about the complexity and scale of systems you've owned than whether you've used a particular tool.