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About the role
The Engineering Platforms team provides the foundational infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products with confidence, speed, and clarity. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that shape the future of our entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and developer empowerment.
You are a pragmatic visionary who can "poke holes" in complex designs to prevent future debt, simplify sprawling systems, and deliver scalable, resilient solutions that save thousands of engineering hours. Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by example - innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of engineering platforms at Compass.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal engineering platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience.
- Architect, scale, and maintain our platform's core features - including IDEs, CLIs, CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observability - to meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity. This includes building tools and services that guide engineers along the "golden path" for development and deployment.
- Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem.
- Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them.
- Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs.
- Partner with customer teams and stakeholders such as security and compliance to proactively identify infrastructure needs
Basic Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems.
- Proven ability to design and build complex distributed systems, ensuring reliability and scalability not just for a single team, but across a broader product surface.
- Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Extensive experience building and operating services on major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) with a focus on abstracting complexity for end-users.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building internal tools, libraries, or APIs that have been successfully adopted by multiple teams outside of your direct organization.
- A history of modernizing legacy systems and successfully deprecating redundant infrastructure.
- Ability to manage the full lifecycle of an internal developer platform, treating internal engineers as customers and focusing on "Golden Path" adoption.
- Active experience in the hiring process and a track record of outsized impact with the continuous improvement of engineering culture.
Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $155K-$197K annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.
Perks that You Need to Know About:
Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.
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Compass Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
126 Newbury St, Boston, MA, United States
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