Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms

Compass • Seattle, WA

65d

About The Position

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. About the role: The Engineering Platforms team provides the foundational infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products with confidence, speed, and clarity. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that shape the future of our entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and developer empowerment. You bring expert-level industry skills in large-scale platform systems. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient solutions 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 engineering at our company.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, or TypeScript.
• Experience building and operating large-scale services on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and Kubernetes architecture.
• Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and lead complex projects.

Nice To Haves

• Deep experience with modern, large-scale platform components and services (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, internal developer portals, service meshes).
• Expertise in OpenTelemetry (OTel) or other observability tools, with a strong understanding of how they fit into a broader platform strategy.
• Experience architecting and executing a large-scale migration between major platform components or systems.
• Familiarity with building AI-driven operational tools, leveraging LLMs for tasks like log summarization or creating agentic workflows for automation.
• A deep understanding of one or more of these domains: Designing and implementing systems that drive productivity, scalability, and quality across an entire engineering organization. Managing the full lifecycle of an internal developer platform as a product, from API design to driving user adoption.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal developer platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience.
• Architect, scale, and maintain our platform's core features—including CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observability—to meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity. This includes building tools and services that guide engineers along the "golden path" for development and deployment.
• Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem.
• Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs.

Benefits

• Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions).
• Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees