Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms

Overview

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The Engineering Platforms team provides the foundational infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products with confidence, speed, and clarity. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that shape the future of our entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and developer empowerment.

You bring expert-level industry skills in large-scale platform systems. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient solutions while fostering collaboration and technical excellence. Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by example—innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of engineering at our company.

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal developer platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience.
• Architect, scale, and maintain our platform's core features—including CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observability—to meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity. This includes building tools and services that guide engineers along the "golden path" for development and deployment.
• Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem.
• Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs.

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of the following:
  Java, Python, or Type Script.
• Experience building and operating large-scale services on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and Kubernetes architecture.
• Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and lead complex projects.

• Deep experience with modern, large-scale platform components and services (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, internal developer portals, service meshes).
• Expertise in Open Telemetry (OTel) or other observability tools, with a strong understanding of how they fit into a broader platform strategy.
• Experience architecting and executing a large-scale migration between major platform components or systems.
• Familiarity with building AI-driven operational tools, leveraging LLMs for tasks like log summarization or creating agentic workflows for automation.
• A deep understanding of design, development, and lifecycle management of internal developer platforms as products, from API design to driving user adoption.

The base pay range for this position is $111K-$167K annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance;
Maven (a support system for new parents);
Carrot (fertility benefits);
Urban Sitter (caregiver referral network);
Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.

Do your best work, be your authentic self. At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility.

As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

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Los Angeles County Fair Chance Notice

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology