Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About the role

The Compa Platform team builds and operates the systems that power our products, enabling our engineers and keeping our platform infrastructure reliable as we grow. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Team, you will own and lead backend and infrastructure projects across Compa's products, systems, AI/ML, and data warehouse.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and the AWS infrastructure that supports them
• Develop and scale application backends in Django and Postgres, with a focus on reliability and performance
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of backend and infrastructure services
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure automation on AWS
• Make architectural decisions and set technical direction
• Absorb ambiguity and act in a generalist platform engineering capacity on a small start-up team
• Assist in upscaling the team as new capabilities are developed, learning quickly and building shared resources that support continued growth

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering with an emphasis on backend systems
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production systems on AWS
• Deep, hands-on experience with Python, Django, and Postgres in production
• Solid DevOps/SRE fundamentals (CI/CD, observability, incident response)
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database fundamentals

Qualifications

• Start-up experience
• Experience handling critical incidents for production systems
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Exposure to ML Ops
• Working knowledge of security best practices and cryptographic protocols

Skills

• Python
• Django
• Postgres
• AWS
• Kubernetes

Benefits

Compa offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, PTO and parental leave, equity, company offsites, continuous education, commuter benefits, and a flexible work environment. Compensation Range: $185K - $200K