Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Ladder

7d • $145,000 - $192,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to accelerate developer productivity across Ladder's engineering organization. You'll own and modernize our CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer tooling - while also contributing to the reliability of our cloud infrastructure and data platform. The ideal candidate brings demonstrated experience in software engineering, leadership maturity and a deep understanding of engineering infrastructure. This is a remote role based in one of the 22 States Ladder is currently hiring in - AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, KS, MA, MD, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI. Please note, Ladder is not currently sponsoring or transferring OPT or H1-B visa's.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years in infrastructure/platform roles
• Kubernetes
• GCP (or equivalent cloud)
• CI/CD pipeline design
• Docker
• Infrastructure-as-code
• JVM operational experience
• BigQuery
• Kafka
• Deep production experience with Clojure or another functional language and are excited to work in a Clojure-and-JVM environment.
• Battle-tested experience profiling and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for large codebases.
• Intricate knowledge of monorepo build tools like Bazel and Buck.
• Extensive experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Datomic, BigQuery and cloud platforms like GCP.
• Deep understanding of software design and architecture.
• Ability to take a high-level, messy business problem, define technical constraints, and drive the solution from ideation to deployment.

Nice To Haves

• Prior Clojure experience is a strong plus.
• Datomic
• Datadog or similar observability platform
• Go
• Python
• Beam/Dataflow

Responsibilities

• Improve developer velocity across the engineering organization by measuring and optimizing the inner loop (time from code change to confident production deployment), including build times, test parallelization, and deployment rollout speed.
• Shape the architecture of Ladder's production infrastructure by evaluating trade-offs and making high-impact technical decisions, such as integrating native cloud provider tools or redesigning data pipeline rebuilds.
• Participate in incident response for infrastructure, conduct retrospectives, and drive follow-through on fixes.
• Systematically pay down infrastructure tech debt by identifying legacy systems, building roadmaps for their retirement, migrating from bespoke systems to native integrations, cleaning up cloud migration remnants, and upgrading drifted components.
• Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible paid time off
• Stock options
• A rewarding 401k match program
• Ladder Fit Program (monthly reimbursement for wellness-related expenses)
• Paid parental leave (ten weeks)
• Work-from-home flexibility and support (one-time remote office stipend and monthly stipend for WFH costs)
• Fun company-wide events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree