Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform

Pave•San Francisco, CA

53d

About The Position

The R&D Org Pave's R&D pillar includes our data science, engineering, information technology, product design, product management, and security teams. This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500+ client organizations. Our engineering team moves between ideation, scoping, and execution in a matter of days while closely iterating with cross-functional partners on requirements. At Pave, we use TypeScript, Node.js, and React, hosted on GCP. Compensation strategy is broken down into 3 pillars - compensation bands, planning workflows, and total rewards communication. We build products that make these processes seamless for customers. Over the next year, our roadmap is focused on enhancing the entire compensation lifecycle: from philosophy definition to market trend analysis, band adjustments, merit cycles, and employee communication. We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale. The Developer Team @ Pave The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. We own the developer experience and infrastructure that enable every team to ship enterprise-grade software quickly and confidently. 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 processes. You'll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability. Compensation, It's What We Do. Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. The targeted cash compensation for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process): $195,500 - $264,500

Requirements

5+ 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.
Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar), security, and reliability best practices.
Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with experience scaling production systems.