[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Platform @Recruiting From Scratch

Role Description

The role is ideal for a platform-focused engineer who enjoys solving problems for other engineers, improving development velocity, building reliable infrastructure, and taking ownership of technically complex projects.

• Identify, prioritize, design, and deliver technical platform solutions across cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure, shared product libraries, security practices, authentication, and CI/CD tooling.
• Build and maintain reliable cloud infrastructure supporting production applications.
• Design and improve AWS infrastructure and cloud architecture.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Improve engineering productivity by identifying and eliminating technical and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Build tooling and platform capabilities that allow engineers to ship software faster and more reliably.
• Take ownership of production availability and system reliability.
• Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and recovery practices across production systems.
• Participate in periodic on-call responsibilities and production incident response.
• Improve deployment processes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and other developer tooling.
• Develop and maintain test infrastructure and automated testing systems.
• Improve engineering quality through testing, automation, and development best practices.
• Work with engineering stakeholders to understand technical pain points and identify opportunities for platform improvements.
• Drive investigation and decision-making around technology choices that impact how the engineering organization builds and maintains software.
• Lead critical platform projects from initial scoping through production deployment.
• Define project scope, break work into actionable tickets, and manage technical delivery timelines.
• Build shared libraries and reusable engineering infrastructure where appropriate.
• Improve authentication and security practices across engineering systems.
• Help establish scalable engineering patterns as the company grows.
• Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and availability.
• Troubleshoot complex production and infrastructure issues.
• Work closely with application engineers to improve the developer experience.
• Uplevel the engineering team on platform technologies and best practices.
• Create technical documentation and internal guides.
• Lead technical presentations, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Mentor junior and less experienced engineers.
• Help establish engineering standards around infrastructure, testing, security, and deployment.
• Design and develop full-stack solutions when necessary to solve engineering or business problems.
• Contribute frontend code when required to deliver complete platform solutions.
• Work across backend, infrastructure, testing, and application layers when necessary.
• Balance speed of delivery with reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Operate with significant autonomy in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Help shape the company's technical architecture and engineering practices as the organization scales.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or a closely related engineering function.
• Strong experience building and maintaining production infrastructure.
• Experience working with cloud environments, particularly AWS.
• Experience working in a startup or high-growth engineering environment strongly preferred.
• Track record of improving engineering productivity and development velocity.
• Experience owning production systems and reliability.
• Experience working across engineering teams to identify and solve technical pain points.
• Experience taking technical projects from concept through production.
• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy.
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams is a plus.
• Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers is preferred.
• Experience in EdTech, cybersecurity, or security-focused environments is a plus.
• Must be based in the United States.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder.
• No visa sponsorship or visa transfers.

Requirements

• Strong AWS experience.
• Hands-on Terraform experience.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and deployment pipelines.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated testing infrastructure.
• Experience with Jest and/or Pytest.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with production observability and monitoring.
• Experience with incident response and system recovery.
• Understanding of authentication and security practices.
• Experience designing reliable and scalable engineering systems.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and deployment practices.
• Experience building developer tooling and internal engineering platforms.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work across infrastructure and application code.
• Experience designing APIs and backend services is a plus.
• Experience contributing to frontend applications when necessary is a plus.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, testing, debugging, and architecture.

Benefits

• Base salary: $150,000 – $200,000.
• Competitive equity.
• Flexible cash vs. equity compensation structure.
• Fully remote work within the United States.
• Preference for candidates based in New York or Boston.
• Health insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Free access to online learning programs.
• Opportunity to work on technology serving approximately half a million students.
• Significant ownership over platform architecture and engineering infrastructure.
• Opportunity to improve engineering productivity across the organization.
• Opportunity to work directly with engineering leadership.
• Exposure to AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, security, testing, and developer tooling.
• Opportunity to mentor and uplevel other engineers.
• High-impact role at a growing Series A company.