Job description

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer on DEP, you will build systems end to end: the API, the service, the schema, the configuration, the pipeline, and the telemetry. You will combine hands-on engineering with systems thinking, building the foundations that make data and machine learning engineers more productive. * Design, build, and operate the Go services at the heart of DEP, and shape the declarative APIs and interfaces engineers build against * Define how services ship on the platform, establishing patterns and abstractions for deployment, configuration, release, and lifecycle that services and partner teams can build on * Drive operational excellence for critical production services, including service-level objectives, observability and alerting, release safety, availability, and recovery as adoption grows * Shape the developer experience across command-line tooling, project scaffolding, APIs, and documentation. Run onboarding, gather feedback from data engineering teams, and turn recurring friction into product improvements * Design and evolve core data and persistence models, establishing durable schemas, contracts, and interfaces with clear patterns for compatibility, migration, and evolution * Develop reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows and establish patterns for how skills and agents are built, evaluated, shared, and maintained across the team * Shape technical direction by defining engineering standards, evaluating emerging technology, mentoring engineers, and building strong relationships with engineering teams and customers to inform priorities and investments Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience 6+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building complex backend services and distributed systems Strong programming fundamentals, with a track record of shipping and operating production backend services and developer-facing tools Experience designing durable APIs, schemas, or developer-facing interfaces with attention to compatibility and evolution Demonstrated experience with CI/CD and release engineering, including promotion between environments and safe rollback Strong relational database fundamentals, including schema design, indexing, transactions and isolation levels, and managed schema migrations in production services Solid distributed systems fundamentals, including the ability to reason about reliability, consistency, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs Experience operating production services, including observability, on-call, incident response, and post-incident improvement, with a track record of raising the reliability and maintainability of systems you inherit Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to work effectively across teams and communicate technical decisions clearly Experience building infrastructure, developer platforms, or developer-facing systems Experience with infrastructure-as-code systems such as Terraform or OpenTofu, including building reusable abstractions or operating infrastructure tooling at scale Experience with policy-as-code or configuration-as-code technologies such as Open Policy Agent, Rego, PKL, CUE, Jsonnet, or comparable systems Experience building CLI or terminal-based developer tools used as part of engineers' daily workflows Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and service-level indicators Hands-on depth with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL or CockroachDB Experience with artifact or package distribution systems, including concepts such as versioning, immutability, provenance, signing, or registry protocols Experience developing reusable skills, agents, or workflows for AI-assisted development tools and helping drive their adoption across an engineering team Exposure to data governance, privacy engineering, security, or compliance-driven requirements, and experience partnering with privacy and security teams Experience serving other engineering teams, with an understanding of multi-tenancy, blast radius, shared ownership models, compatibility, and deprecation Strong developer empathy, with a track record of engaging engineering customers through onboarding, documentation, office hours, and other feedback channels

Requirements

Must-haves

Design, build, and operate the Go services at the heart of DEP, and shape the declarative APIs and interfaces engineers build against
Define how services ship on the platform, establishing patterns and abstractions for deployment, configuration, release, and lifecycle that services and partner teams can build on
Drive operational excellence for critical production services, including service-level objectives, observability and alerting, release safety, availability, and recovery as adoption grows
Shape the developer experience across command-line tooling, project scaffolding, APIs, and documentation. Run onboarding, gather feedback from data engineering teams, and turn recurring friction into product improvements
Design and evolve core data and persistence models, establishing durable schemas, contracts, and interfaces with clear patterns for compatibility, migration, and evolution
Develop reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows and establish patterns for how skills and agents are built, evaluated, shared, and maintained across the team
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
6+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building complex backend services and distributed systems
Strong programming fundamentals, with a track record of shipping and operating production backend services and developer-facing tools
Experience designing durable APIs, schemas, or developer-facing interfaces with attention to compatibility and evolution
Demonstrated experience with CI/CD and release engineering, including promotion between environments and safe rollback
Strong relational database fundamentals, including schema design, indexing, transactions and isolation levels, and managed schema migrations in production services
Solid distributed systems fundamentals, including the ability to reason about reliability, consistency, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs
Experience operating production services, including observability, on-call, incident response, and post-incident improvement, with a track record of raising the reliability and maintainability of systems you inherit
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to work effectively across teams and communicate technical decisions clearly
Experience building infrastructure, developer platforms, or developer-facing systems
Experience with infrastructure-as-code systems such as Terraform or OpenTofu, including building reusable abstractions or operating infrastructure tooling at scale
Experience with policy-as-code or configuration-as-code technologies such as Open Policy Agent, Rego, PKL, CUE, Jsonnet, or comparable systems
Experience building CLI or terminal-based developer tools used as part of engineers' daily workflows
Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and service-level indicators
Hands-on depth with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL or CockroachDB
Experience with artifact or package distribution systems, including concepts such as versioning, immutability, provenance, signing, or registry protocols
Experience developing reusable skills, agents, or workflows for AI-assisted development tools and helping drive their adoption across an engineering team
Exposure to data governance, privacy engineering, security, or compliance-driven requirements, and experience partnering with privacy and security teams

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