Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms

Compass • New York City, NY

154d • $131,000 - $197,000

About The Position

The Foundational Infrastructure team provides cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower Compass teams to build and deploy products securely, efficiently, and with minimal operational overhead. As a Senior Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that impact the wider engineering organization. You bring expert-level industry skills, at scale, to Compass in one or more of the Preferred Qualifications below. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient systems while fostering collaboration and technical excellence. Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by example-innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of Compass Engineering.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience with proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience building and operating large-scale cloud services in AWS (preferred) or GCP.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and microservice architecture.
• Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and execution.

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years full-time work experience on an infrastructure platform team providing managed services or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to sizeable (200+ engineers) engineering organizations.
• Led design, development, best practices, observability, tuning, scalability, elasticity, and performance/cost optimization of core infrastructure components.
• Has a deep understanding of one or more of these domains: Kubernetes/Compute Infrastructure, Cloud Networking, HAProxy, Istio, Envoy, DNS, BGP, TGW, VPC Peering, ALB, VPN, Edge/CDN networking (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly).

Responsibilities

• Guide technical strategy and mentor engineers on high-impact projects.
• Design, develop, automate, and optimize scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Maintain and improve platform reliability, scalability, and security.
• Manage and monitor infrastructure components and systems.
• Provide support for infrastructure-related incidents and internal customer needs.
• Partner with customer teams to proactively identify infrastructure needs.
• Document and refine infrastructure design and operational practices.

Benefits

• Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• Full range of benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees