Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms

Overview

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At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

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The Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 one or more of these domains:
- Designing and implementing systems that drive productivity, scalability, and quality across an entire engineering organization.
- Managing the full lifecycle of an internal developer platform as a product, from API design to driving user adoption.

Compensation:
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.

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