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Sr Software Engineer - CPE
$124K–$184K
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Owns and operates Credit Production Engineering’s internal tooling, knowledge base, and services, delivering them across the software development lifecycle and reducing operational toil.
What you'll do
- Own CPE tooling codebases, including design, code review, testing, release, deployment, and ongoing upkeep.
- Build and operate production services and the knowledge base platform, including its PostgreSQL data layer and operational support.
- Guide engineers, advise management on technical decisions, and coordinate with other teams on service topology and dependencies.
What they ask for
- Working fluency in Shell scripting, Python, and TypeScript.
- Production database expertise, including schema design, migrations, permissions, indexing, query performance, backup, and restore.
- Production cloud infrastructure experience, including deployment and observability; AWS and GCP are used.
- Prior on-call rotation experience and ability to drive technical designs across teams without formal authority.
Nice to have
- PostgreSQL with pgvector or another vector store; retrieval systems or LLM tooling.
- Managed Postgres at scale, alerting/monitoring platforms, or experience with event correlation, anomaly detection, or time-series analysis.
Pay
USD 123,500.00 - USD 183,700.00 annually (base salary).
Tools
Shell, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, pgvector, Cloud SQL
AI focus
Preferred experience includes retrieval systems or LLM tooling; the role also involves a retrieval platform and potentially vector search.
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