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Senior Software Engineer
$190K–$275K
New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 6 years with a bachelor’s degree, or 4 years with a master’s degree; also requires 4 years with the specified technologies and 2 years with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Designs and maintains scalable internal developer platforms, distributed systems, and shared engineering tools to improve productivity and reliability.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize platform components, services, workflows, reusable frameworks, and internal APIs.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives and conduct design and code reviews for high-impact systems.
- Use operational data to identify bottlenecks and guide prioritization and architectural improvements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 6 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree in those fields and 4 years of relevant experience.
- 4 years of experience with REST APIs or gRPC; one of Python, Java, C#, Javascript, or C++; relational databases and SQL; AWS; Kubernetes and Docker containers; and S3 or Azure Blob Storage.
- 2 years of experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
Pay
$189,592 - $274,700 USD per year (base salary)
Tools
REST APIs, gRPC, Python, Java, C#, Javascript, C++, AWS
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