Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

New York, NY | $200K-$300K + Equity | On-site We are working with an early-stage, venture-backed technology company building software and AI for a large, historically underserved industry. They’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep infrastructure and distributed systems experience to join a small engineering team in NYC. You’ll work directly with the founders, owning major technical problems end-to-end and helping establish the architecture and engineering foundations of the company. This is not a traditional DevOps/SRE role. They’re looking for a software engineer who has built serious production systems and wants to own the infrastructure and platform underneath a rapidly scaling company. What you'll do Design and build core platform and distributed systems from the ground upOwn architecture decisions across backend systems and shared infrastructureBuild multi-tenant infrastructure that scales efficiently as the business growsOwn the path from commit → production, including CI/CD, testing, deployment workflows and developer toolingEstablish observability, monitoring, reliability and incident-response practicesMake pragmatic architecture decisions balancing speed today with scale tomorrowBuild internal abstractions and tooling that make the entire engineering team fasterWork directly with the CTO on the company’s hardest technical problems What we're looking for 6+ years of software engineering experience, with significant backend, platform, infrastructure or distributed systems depthExperience scaling production systems at a rapidly growing, VC-backed startupAt least one recognizable growth-stage technology company on your backgroundStrong distributed systems fundamentals and experience operating systems at meaningful production scaleEvidence of personally owning important architecture decisions — not simply operating infrastructure designed by othersComfortable working with ambiguity and taking problems from idea → architecture → implementation → productionExperience with CI/CD, developer tooling, multi-tenant systems, observability or incident response is a plus They’re tech-stack agnostic and care much more about the complexity and scale of systems you’ve owned than whether you’ve used a particular tool. Interested? Apply today