Pave
Software Engineer, Developer Platform
$141K–$264K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Jun 24, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- No specific number of years stated; hiring across a range of experience levels.
About the job
Build and operate Pave’s developer platform, infrastructure, and tooling so engineers and coding agents can build, verify, deploy, and run software reliably.
What you'll do
- Build shared infrastructure for agent environments, workflows, verification, runtimes, automated merges, and measurement.
- Improve monorepo tooling, CI/CD, development environments, build and test performance, and deployment reliability.
- Evolve production infrastructure to improve scalability, performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and operational health.
What they ask for
- Previous software engineering experience in backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, or developer experience.
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
- Care about developer productivity, reliable systems, fast feedback loops, and thoughtful abstractions.
- Take ownership of systems over time, measuring production performance and continuously improving them.
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD, build systems, monorepos, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, testing, or observability.
Pay
$141,100–$190,900 USD (targeted cash compensation); $166,600–$225,400 USD (targeted cash compensation); $195,500–$264,500 USD (targeted cash compensation)
Tools
TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, OrbStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Build infrastructure that enables coding agents to participate reliably in software development, including agent environments, repository context, event-driven workflows, verification, runtimes, automated merge flows, and measurement.
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