Unify
Staff Software Engineer, Platform
$250K–$295K
San Francisco Office +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office
New York Office - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software-engineering experience, including 3+ years leading critical projects or teams.
About the job
Scale Unify’s core platform and lead technical direction, engineering standards, and development of new products in partnership with founders and cross-functional teams.
What you'll do
- Scale and stabilize the platform for growth and large customers.
- Set the technical roadmap and establish engineering standards, CI/CD, testing, reliability, and observability practices.
- Prototype and integrate third-party technologies; provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software-engineering experience, including 3+ years leading critical projects or teams.
- Deep hands-on experience scaling and operating PostgreSQL, including partitioned or sharded schemas, query and index tuning, backups, observability, replication, and failover.
- Track record of shipping high-impact, production-grade systems at scale.
- History of mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively.
Pay
250,000 - $295,000 (depending on experience) (base salary); $250K – $295K (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, CI/CD
AI focus
The role supports an AI-native outbound platform and involves prototyping with model-serving platforms; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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