Intuit
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
$171K–$232K
Mountain View, California +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
San Diego, California - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade distributed systems at scale.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Designs, scales, and operates EWOK, Intuit’s AWS-based regional failover and disaster recovery platform, improving recovery for internal services.
What you'll do
- Lead technical design for distributed orchestration, cross-region replication, and automated testing.
- Build, operate, and scale reliable services on AWS; collaborate on highly available cloud architectures.
- Participate in on-call rotations, resolve incidents and defects, and perform root cause analysis.
What they ask for
- Deep proficiency in AWS architecture and distributed systems, including cross-region replication.
- Production experience with Python and Go, especially concurrency and reliable backend services.
- Practical understanding of disaster recovery patterns, fault tolerance, distributed state management, and chaos engineering.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs, write architecture design documents, and influence cross-functional decisions.
Pay
Mountain View: USD $171,000 - $231,500 base salary
Tools
AWS, IAM, Route 53, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Python, Go, Copilot
AI focus
Use AI-assisted engineering tools, including Copilot and LLM agents, to accelerate development; the platform is evolving toward AI-native capabilities.
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