Sr. Software Development Engineer, Platform Engineering

About the role

At PitchBook, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain components of PitchBook’s backend services. Hands-on development will be an integral part of the responsibilities
• Implement well-designed, testable and efficient code that meets product requirements, coding standards, performance, scalability, reliability, and the organization’s goals and principles
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers and other internal stakeholders in an Agile environment
• Provide technical guidance and perform code reviews for team members
• Design and deliver on small projects end-to-end with little to no guidance
• Provide support to applications in production in terms of deployment, troubleshooting, and incident management
• Build and operate AI powered capabilities across the product delivery toolchain
• Partner with ML Ops to bring AI capabilities into the tools used by product delivery teams in a safe and scalable way (e.g., coding assistants, code review, testing, documentation, search, ticket triage, incident response, service catalog, etc)
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications

• Required Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
• 6+ years in Software Development or Engineering roles
• 6+ years in at least one production language (Java, Go, Python, or similar) and 3 years experience with a second language.
• 4+ years experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) and the operational concerns of running them at scale
• 5+ years experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and GitOps-style delivery
• Experienced working within a development team in an Agile environment
• Experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Desired skills:
• Ability to handle a project through the entire software development lifecycle, end to end
• Demonstrate ability to lead and/or provide guidance to junior peers within the team
• Experience with distributed, scalable microservices and event-driven architectures
• Experience with data storage, replication, caching and search technologies, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Amazon RDS, GCP CloudSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Lucene/Solr
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Familiarity with architecture trade-off analysis methods and domain-driven design preferred
• Practical experience integrating LLM based features into real internal tools or workflows (OpenAI APIs, LangChain, or similar), comfortable wiring AI into production tools without needing to own the model layer
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, and responsible AI patterns including cost, safety, data handling, and governance

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook

• Physical Health
• Emotional Health
• Social Health
• Financial Health

Working Conditions

• The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.