Playground
Staff Software Engineer
$250K–$300K
New York City · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering focused on frontend systems.
About the job
Build and maintain scalable, secure, high-performing infrastructure and frontend systems for Playground’s child care platform.
What you'll do
- Improve deployment pipelines, infrastructure scalability, security, and separation of development, staging, and production environments.
- Optimize Vite builds and maintain developer tooling, including CI/CD automation.
- Implement and maintain centralized logging, uptime monitoring, and alerts; document configurations and processes.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering focused on frontend systems.
- Proficiency in React, modern deployment tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong experience with Vite, monorepos, and frontend build optimization.
- Experience with logging and monitoring solutions, plus a deep understanding of security best practices and infrastructure resilience.
Pay
$250K – $300K (USD, base salary)
Tools
React, Vite, CI/CD, Sentry, Datadog, Google Cloud Monitoring, PostHog
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