Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform

Pave • San Francisco, CA

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. Our customers are Pave's own engineers. We treat developer experience as a product - the leverage layer that lets every team ship enterprise-grade software fast and reliably. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll help define how Pave builds software. As a senior engineer, you'll lead initiatives end to end - from setting CI/CD and observability standards to rethinking local development workflows and incident response - and you'll define how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into Pave's development loop, from scaffolding to review to deploy. You'll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability. You'll own the metrics for developer velocity and reliability, and be accountable for moving them.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.
• High developer empathy - you love improving workflows and enabling others to move faster.
• Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects with cross-team impact.
• A track record of improving developer velocity with modern AI tooling - agentic coding, AI-assisted review/testing - and strong opinions on where it does and doesn't help.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar).
• A strong instinct for reliability and security - you understand that on a platform handling compensation data, speed cannot come at the cost of trust.
• Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with experience scaling production systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building internal developer platforms in enterprise SaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives end to end, from setting CI/CD and observability standards to rethinking local development workflows and incident response.
• Define how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into Pave's development loop, from scaffolding to review to deploy.
• Partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability.
• Own the metrics for developer velocity and reliability, and be accountable for moving them.

Benefits

• Global force in compensation management
• Tools to take control, build confidence, and earn credibility in every pay decision
• Hybrid culture
• Team Sync every Friday with breakfast, new hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and occasional Kahoot
• Smart, humble, and genuinely motivated team members

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed