Software Engineer (Platform)

About the role

This is a platform engineering role. You will own the foundations that product engineers rely on every day. You’ll design and maintain the systems, tools, and primitives that determine how fast, safely, and confidently the team can ship. Your work directly influences developer workflows, reliability, and day-to-day engineering velocity.

Responsibilities

• Optimize for leverage by prioritizing work that multiplies impact across the engineering org.
• Develop and evolve a point of view on how engineers should work, then translate that vision into code and systems.
• Operate comfortably in messy, fast-moving environments and steadily turn them into something more solid without slowing the team down.
• Balance long-term thinking with practical execution.

Requirements

• You have built and owned foundational systems that other engineers depended on, and you've lived with the consequences of those decisions.
• You ramp quickly, thrive in ambiguity, and don't need problems fully specified before you start making progress.
• You understand the tension between ideal solutions and velocity, and know when to pursue one over the other.
• You instinctively look for leverage and prefer systemic fixes over one-off solutions.
• You have a point of view on how engineers should work, and you're opinionated about turning that into code, tooling, and defaults.
• You've worked closely with other engineers or teams as an enabler, not just as an implementer.

Qualifications

• You might be a fit if you’ve built or owned internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure.
• You’ve worked on agentic systems, LLM platforms, or large-scale data ingestion pipelines.
• You’ve been the person people go to when systems get weird or unclear.

Skills

• Experience building and maintaining foundational systems.
• Ability to prioritize work that maximizes impact across the engineering org.
• Comfort operating in messy, fast-moving environments.
• Strong understanding of the tension between ideal solutions and velocity.
• Experience developing and evolving a point of view on how engineers should work.
• Proven ability to work closely with other engineers or teams as an enabler.

Benefits

• Health: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
• Flexible PTO.
• Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.

Pay

Competitive salary and equity package.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week.

Why Outtake

• We are taking on the dark side of AI advancement - we protect people from threats that are amplified by rapid advances in AI.
• The problem space is evolving, and you won't stop learning - scammers continuously adapt.
• The problems we're solving are always changing and demand constant innovation.
• The impact is immediate and real - attacks stopped, fraud prevented, lives protected, and threats caught that humans alone would miss.
• The company is thriving - serious customers, real revenue, partnerships with frontier AI labs, and momentum that comes from shipping things people depend on.
• The people are exceptional - sharp thinkers, strong operators, and teammates you'll want in your corner for the rest of your career.
• The upside is meaningful - we're still early in our journey, and we're tackling a massive problem that's only getting bigger.