Software Engineer, Platform
About The Position
About Greenlite AI Greenlite AI is the leading AI agent platform for financial services. Companies like Mercury, Gusto and multiple U.S. banks trust us to automate mission critical work, starting with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism investigations. We’ve raised over $20M from Greylock, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures and other top tier investors. We’re based in downtown San Francisco and our team comes from world-class organizations like SpaceX, Google, Netflix, Stripe, Plaid and more. The Role We’re hiring Platform Engineers who build and operate the infrastructure that powers compliance at scale. You’ll own reliability, performance, and scalability across core systems: design Postgres schemas, optimize queries, build high-throughput services, orchestrate long-running workflows (Temporal), and keep us at 99.9%+ uptime for customers processing thousands of cases per day. You’ll write production backend code, design distributed systems, and own the infra that lets product teams ship fast without breaking prod.
Requirements
- 4+ yrs (Engineer) / 6+ yrs (Sr. Engineer) / 8+ yrs (Staff Engineer) backend or infra experience
- Strong systems fundamentals: distributed systems, databases, APIs, concurrency
- Proven production experience: debugging live systems, incident response, on-call
- PostgreSQL expertise: query optimization, indexing, schema design, migrations
- Ownership mindset: you close the loop, write postmortems, prevent recurrence
- Technical Skills Languages: TypeScript/Node.js (primary), SQL (advanced), Python (nice to have)
- Databases: PostgreSQL/Supabase, RLS, query planning
- Workflow: Temporal (preferred) or Airflow/Prefect/Cadence
- Cloud/Infra: AWS/GCP/Azure (we use Render.com on AWS), Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Monitoring: Datadog (or Grafana/Prometheus/New Relic/Sentry)
Nice To Haves
- Fintech/RegTech experience (security, audit logging)
- AI/LLM infra (prompt orchestration, token limits, cost mgmt)
- High-throughput systems; chaos/resilience testing
- VPC architecture and cloud networking (security groups, private endpoints, compliance requirements)
Responsibilities
- Build APIs and services handling thousands of concurrent requests
- Architect ingestion → assessment → delivery pipelines for cases
- Implement Temporal workflows for long-running, stateful processes
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries for compliance workflows
- Own CI/CD , deployments, and infrastructure-as-code, Drive observability : logging, tracing, metrics.
- Debug slow queries, memory leaks, race conditions
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, commuter benefits
- 15 days PTO + holidays, unlimited sick days
- Flexible leave options
- Working late? We cover DoorDash and Uber home
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
