ngrok
Software Engineer III/Senior, Infrastructure Platform
$166K–$248K
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be US-based and legally authorized to work in the United States. No visa sponsorship; applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent, ongoing basis without current or future sponsorship.
About the job
Build and operate ngrok’s internal infrastructure platform, improving engineering workflows, reliability, deployment systems, and developer experience.
What you'll do
- Build and improve systems engineers use to develop, test, deploy, and operate ngrok.
- Automate operational workflows and improve platform reliability, observability, and incident response.
- Mentor teammates and contribute technical direction and platform architecture.
What they ask for
- Experience building and operating distributed systems in AWS or other cloud environments.
- Comfort with a statically typed, compiled language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java.
- Think of operational problems as engineering problems and care about developer experience and scalable systems design.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, nix, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or gRPC; observability platforms such as Datadog or Honeycomb; or internal developer platforms and builder tooling.
- Experience with networking, infrastructure, or security-focused systems.
Pay
$202,500 – $247,500 (USD; base salary); $186,300 – $227,700 (USD; base salary); $180,000 – $220,000 (USD; base salary); $165,600 – $202,400 (USD; base salary)
Tools
Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Kubernetes, Terraform, Protobuf, AWS, Kafka
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