Software Engineer - Developer Platform

At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.

Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.

The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.

Pave's R&D pillar includes our data science, engineering, information technology, product design, product management, and security teams. This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500+ client organizations.

Compensation strategy is broken down into 3 pillars
- compensation bands
, planning workflows
, and total rewards communication
. We build products that make these processes seamless for customers.

Over the next year, our roadmap is focused on enhancing the entire compensation lifecycle: from philosophy definition to market trend analysis, band adjustments, merit cycles, and employee communication. We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale.

We own the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows that enable every team to ship enterprise-grade software with speed and confidence. As an engineer on the team, you’ll play a technical leadership role in shaping developer experience, scaling our production systems, and establishing foundational engineering patterns adopted across the org.

• 5+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering.
• Passion for improving developer experience and velocity.
• Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills.
• Proven ability to lead ambiguous projects with cross-team impact.
• Excellent communication and developer empathy:
  You enjoy enabling others to work more effectively.
• Execution-oriented mindset:
  You’re comfortable diving deep into technical details to deliver real impact.
• Nice to Have:
  Experience with CI/CD, observability, Type Script, monorepo tooling, automated testing, expertise with GCP (or another major cloud provider), or AI/ML tooling.

Our stack includes: Type Script, Node.js, Orbstack, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, Datadog, Git Hub Actions, Cursor, and Incident.io.

Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top‑notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region‑specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail.

This salary range may include multiple levels.

The targeted cash compensation for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process):

P3: $166,000 - $225,400
P4: $195,500 - $264,500

Since being founded in 2019, Pave has established a robust global footprint. Headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District, we operate strategic regional hubs across New York City's Flatiron District, Salt Lake City, and the United Kingdom. We cultivate a vibrant, collaborative workplace culture through our hybrid model, bringing teams together in‑person on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to foster innovation and strengthen professional relationships.

What we provide

• Complete Health Coverage
  :
  Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for you and your family, with plenty of options to suit your needs.
• Time off &…