[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Arc XP

Role Description

Arc XP is the platform and CMS for media companies. Purpose-built for publishers and broadcasters, it is the content platform and operating system that ambitious media organizations across digital media, news publishing, broadcast, and B2B publishing use to create and distribute content, grow and engage their audiences, and monetize through subscriptions and advertising.

This position sits within a group of senior engineers who collectively own application architecture across the platform. Within that group, this person is a primary architect for cloud architecture and automation and for how AI becomes a durable part of our runtime, our delivery layer, and our software delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and building highly scalable, distributed systems.
• Deep AWS expertise (Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, CloudFormation, IAM, DynamoDB).
• Strong CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, AWS CDK).
• Proficiency in server-side languages, with a preference for Python and Node.js.
• Deep knowledge of identity protocols (SAML, SSO, MFA, OAuth) and familiarity with Okta.
• Strong grounding in API design, event-driven systems, microservices architecture, and database systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI and large language model capabilities into production systems.
• Working knowledge of AI-assisted development tools.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field is welcome.

Requirements

• Experience architecting AI-native platforms or AI gateway and governance layers in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, or comparable managed AI services.
• Experience designing internal developer platforms and improving DORA or similar engineering-effectiveness metrics at scale.
• Experience working with external or outsourced operations teams in a governed architecture model.
• Experience in content platforms, publishing systems, or digital experience platforms.
• Familiarity with CDNs and edge platforms such as Akamai, Cloudflare, or CloudFront.
• Experience with bot management, AI crawler and scraping defense, or agentic traffic monitoring and monetization at the edge.
• Experience defining FinOps practices for inference-heavy workloads.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Company-paid pension and 401(k) match.
• Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave.
• Nine paid holidays and two personal days.
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent.
• Robust mental health resources.
• Backup care and caregiver concierge services.
• Gender affirming services.
• Pet insurance.
• Free Post digital subscription.
• Leadership and career development program.