Software Engineer, Platform
About The Position
Outtake is hiring a platform engineer to build and maintain the foundations that product engineers rely on. The role focuses on systems, tools, and primitives that shape developer workflows, reliability, and engineering velocity. The engineer will turn repeated patterns into platforms and one-off fixes into durable systems, helping the team move quickly and make the right choices by default. The position requires balancing long-term platform thinking with practical execution in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment. The engineer will develop a point of view on how engineers should work and translate it into code, tooling, and systems. They will help define the platform's direction and enable faster product work across teams.
Requirements
- Track record of building and owning foundational systems that other engineers depended on, and experience living with the consequences of those decisions.
- Ability to ramp quickly, operate amid ambiguity, and make progress without fully specified problems.
- Judgment to balance ideal solutions against velocity.
- Instinct for leverage and preference for systemic fixes over one-off solutions.
- Clear point of view on how engineers should work and drive to translate it into code, tooling, and defaults.
- Experience working closely with other engineers or teams as an enabler, not just as an implementer.
- Desire to help define and build the platform's direction rather than execute against a tightly defined scope and fixed roadmap.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building or owning internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure.
- Experience working on agentic systems, LLM platforms, or large-scale data ingestion pipelines.
- Track record of being the person others go to when systems get weird or unclear.
Responsibilities
- Own the foundations, systems, tools, and primitives that shape product engineers' workflows, reliability, and velocity.
- Prioritize platform work that multiplies impact across the engineering organization.
- Turn repeated patterns into platforms and one-off fixes into durable systems.
- Develop and evolve a point of view on how engineers should work, translating it into code and systems.
- Operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and improve them without slowing the team down.
- Build or own internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure.
- Remove classes of errors through better abstractions rather than one-off fixes.
- Build infrastructure that enables faster product work across teams.
- Advise engineers and leadership when systems are unclear and when deciding how the platform should evolve.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
