Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform

About the role

At Pave, the Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. Our customers are Pave's own engineers. We treat developer experience as a product—the leverage layer that lets every team ship enterprise-grade software fast and reliably. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll help define how Pave builds software.

As a senior engineer, you'll lead initiatives end to end, from CI/CD and observability standards to local development workflows and incident response. You'll also shape how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into Pave's development loop—from scaffolding to review to deploy. You'll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability. You'll own the metrics for developer velocity and reliability, and be accountable for moving them.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end initiatives in CI/CD, observability, local development workflows, and incident response.
• Shape AI-assisted and agentic workflows within Pave’s development lifecycle (scaffolding, review, deploy).
• Partner with product and data engineers to remove friction and improve developer velocity and reliability.
• Own and drive metrics for developer velocity and reliability.
• Define and uphold engineering best practices, including fast feedback loops, reliable pipelines, strong testing, and safe progressive delivery.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar), with a focus on reliability and security tradeoffs for sensitive compensation data.
• Strong debugging and systems thinking, with experience scaling production services.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI tooling—agentic coding, AI-assisted review/testing—and a clear-eyed view of its strengths and limitations.
• Experience with monorepo tooling and build systems to maintain fast builds and tractable CI as the codebase and team grow.
• High developer empathy—passion for improving workflows and helping others move faster.
• Opinionated and pragmatic, with a genuine passion for CI/CD craftsmanship.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, with a proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects with cross-team impact.

Skills

• TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, Orbstack, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, GitHub Actions, E2B, ClickHouse, Incident.io.

Pay

The targeted cash compensation for this position is $195,500 - $264,500 (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process).

Benefits

• Your Health, Fully Covered: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with a range of options designed to meet you where you are.
• Time That's Actually Yours: Flexible PTO and the freedom to work from anywhere in the world for up to a month.
• Fuel for the Work: Lunch and dinner stipends plus fully stocked kitchens.
• Room to Keep Growing: A quarterly education stipend to invest in the skills and knowledge that matter most to you.
• Support When It Matters Most: Robust parental leave so you can be fully present for the moments that count.
• Getting Here, Made Easier: A commuter stipend to support in-person collaboration.
• Equity: Your total rewards package includes equity.

About Us

Pave is building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform perfects the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision. Top-tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 80% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.

Founded in 2019, Pave is headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District, with regional hubs in New York City, Salt Lake City, Kraków (Poland), and the United Kingdom. We run a hybrid culture, bringing teams together in person 3 to 4 days a week. Every Friday, the whole company gathers for our Team Sync: breakfast, new hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and team-building activities.

Our culture is shaped by five values we live every day:

• Be Intellectually Honest: Truth over comfort. We face reality clearly and speak directly, even when it's hard.
• Play to Win: We're not here to participate. We're here to be the #1 compensation platform in the world.
• Uphold the Pave Platinum Standard: We hold ourselves to the highest bar—for our customers, our data, and each other.
• One Team: We win and lose together. Titles don't drive decisions here—shared goals do.
• Hug of Jawn: Hard to define, impossible to miss. Ask your recruiter.

Our vision is to unlock a labor market built on trust. Our mission is to build confidence in every compensation decision.