Senior Software Engineer, Systems

Company Overview

We are a dynamic and rapidly expanding enterprise technology organization operating in a complex digital environment where scalable systems, secure infrastructure, distributed software, cloud platforms, automation, system performance, and reliable engineering foundations directly influence long-term business success. Our organization supports enterprise customers, product teams, platform services, data infrastructure, internal systems, customer-facing applications, AI-enabled workflows, and mission-critical technology environments that require strong systems thinking, disciplined engineering, and continuous improvement.

As organizations scale, software systems become more complex, interconnected, and business-critical. Companies need engineers who can design resilient services, improve performance, strengthen reliability, build automation, support cloud-native architecture, reduce operational risk, and create engineering systems that can handle growth without sacrificing quality. The Senior Software Engineer Systems role is central to building and improving the underlying systems that support product delivery, data movement, platform reliability, and enterprise technology performance.

Our company is investing heavily in cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, AI-enabled infrastructure, developer productivity, automation, observability, scalable backend services, data pipelines, system performance, platform security, service reliability, microservices, API platforms, and modern engineering practices. We are seeking a highly capable Senior Software Engineer Systems who can contribute deep technical expertise while building reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable systems for a remote-first enterprise environment.

This is not a traditional software engineering role focused only on assigned features, isolated service work, or routine maintenance. The Senior Software Engineer Systems will serve as a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, building, optimizing, and supporting systems that power core applications, infrastructure services, internal platforms, customer-facing products, and enterprise workflows.

The selected candidate will work closely with Engineering Leadership, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, Data Engineering, Product, QA, Site Reliability, Customer Success, Support, and business stakeholders to ensure systems are designed for reliability, scalability, performance, security, and long-term maintainability. This role will support both new system development and modernization of existing architecture, including service improvements, automation, performance tuning, observability, and production readiness.

This is a strong opportunity for a systems-focused software engineer who wants to solve complex technical problems, work across cloud and distributed environments, improve engineering reliability, and help build the technical foundation for a large technology-driven organization.

Your Role at the Company

As Senior Software Engineer Systems, you will design, build, test, deploy, and improve software systems that support cloud platforms, backend services, infrastructure workflows, data movement, internal tools, automation, and enterprise application performance.

You will be responsible for developing system-level software, scalable services, APIs, integration layers, automation tools, observability improvements, reliability enhancements, and performance-focused engineering solutions.

You will serve as a trusted senior engineering contributor while maintaining accountability for system quality, uptime, performance, scalability, security, documentation, and production readiness.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals, systems architecture awareness, cloud infrastructure experience, debugging ability, automation mindset, security awareness, and practical judgment to support reliable enterprise technology delivery.

What You’ll Do

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable systems, backend services, platform components, APIs, internal tools, automation workflows, and infrastructure-supporting software.

Build and improve distributed systems that support high-volume applications, customer-facing platforms, internal business systems, data workflows, and enterprise integrations.

Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability teams to improve cloud architecture, deployment pipelines, service reliability, monitoring, logging, incident response, and operational readiness.

Partner with Product and Engineering teams to translate technical requirements, scalability needs, and system constraints into practical software solutions.

Partner with Security teams to support secure system design, access controls, authentication, authorization, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance expectations.

Improve system performance, reliability, resilience, fault tolerance, scalability, cost efficiency, observability, and long-term maintainability.

Develop APIs, service integrations, background jobs, event-driven workflows, data processing components, and orchestration services that support business and product needs.

Support infrastructure automation, configuration management, CI/CD workflows, deployment tooling, environment management, release processes, and operational scripting.

Analyze production issues, review logs, trace system behavior, identify root causes, resolve defects, and implement preventive engineering improvements.

Improve testing practices through unit tests, integration tests, system tests, performance tests, regression checks, and automated validation workflows.

Identify technical debt, architecture gaps, reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, manual processes, and opportunities for modernization.

Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, system runbooks, design notes, API documentation, incident notes, and operational procedures.

Participate in code reviews, architecture reviews, technical planning, sprint activities, design discussions, and production-readiness reviews.

Mentor junior and mid-level engineers by providing technical guidance, design feedback, code review support, and practical engineering coaching.

What You’ll Bring

6+ years of professional software engineering experience building systems software, backend services, distributed systems, cloud platforms, infrastructure tools, enterprise software, or scalable applications.

Experience working within enterprise SaaS, AI-enabled technology, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare technology, data platforms, developer tools, ecommerce, or large-scale technology environments preferred.

Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go, C++, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, Rust, or similar modern engineering languages.

Experience designing and building backend services, APIs, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, data processing systems, platform tools, or enterprise integrations.

Strong understanding of system design, data structures, networking fundamentals, operating systems concepts, concurrency, APIs, service reliability, scalability, and production operations.

Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless services, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability platforms.

Experience with databases, queues, and data systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Spark, or similar technologies.

Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, incident response, performance tuning, root cause analysis, and system reliability practices.

Familiarity with secure software development, authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, access controls, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.

Experience using tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Linear, Confluence, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Splunk, Postman, Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or similar platforms preferred.

Ability to work with Engineering Leadership, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, Data Engineering, Product, QA, Site Reliability, Customer Success, Support, and business stakeholders.

Excellent technical communication, problem-solving, documentation, code review, collaboration, debugging, and follow-through skills.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related technical field preferred.

Advanced technical education, cloud certifications, security certifications, systems engineering training, open-source contributions, or equivalent practical engineering experience preferred.

Benefits

Competitive technology compensation package.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.

Flexible remote-first work environment.

Performance bonus eligibility.

Systems engineering and platform reliability incentive opportunities.

Long-term incentive opportunities where applicable.

Retirement savings plan with company contribution.

Professional development and continuing education reimbursement.

Systems engineering, cloud platforms, distributed systems, DevOps, infrastructure automation, security, observability, and technical leadership development resources.

Wellness and mental health support programs.

Paid time off and company holidays.

Opportunity to work on enterprise-level systems architecture, cloud platforms, AI-enabled infrastructure, scalable backend services, data systems, and platform modernization initiatives.

Access to modern cloud infrastructure, developer tools, CI/CD systems, observability platforms, security tooling, collaboration systems, and AI-enabled engineering resources.

Personal Capabilities and Qualifications

Strong systems-focused software engineer with the ability to design, build, debug, and improve reliable software systems at scale.

Analytical and technically disciplined, with the ability to understand complex system behavior, identify root causes, and create practical engineering solutions.

Quality-focused and accountable, with strong ownership of code quality, system reliability, performance, documentation, and production readiness.

Cloud-aware and automation-minded, with the ability to improve infrastructure workflows, deployment processes, monitoring, and operational efficiency.

Security-aware and responsible, with the ability to protect customer data, support secure system design, and follow strong engineering controls.

Collaborative and able to work effectively with platform engineers, product engineers, DevOps teams, security partners, data teams, QA, support teams, and engineering leadership.

Strong communicator who can explain system behavior, technical tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, incident findings, and recommendations clearly.

Performance-minded, with the ability to optimize systems for latency, throughput, cost, resilience, maintainability, and operational stability.

Curious and improvement-oriented, with the ability to learn new technologies, evaluate architecture patterns, and contribute to platform modernization.

High integrity and discretion when handling source code, customer data, system architecture, security-sensitive information, internal platforms, infrastructure details, and confidential business logic.

Strategic Support

Support engineering leadership with system design, platform reliability, service scalability, performance optimization, and long-term architecture planning.

Help improve product delivery by building reliable services, reusable system components, cleaner APIs, better automation, stronger testing coverage, and maintainable platform tools.

Support cloud and infrastructure modernization by contributing to deployment practices, observability, service resilience, infrastructure automation, cost efficiency, and scalable architecture.

Align systems engineering work with product needs, customer expectations, operational priorities, security standards, compliance requirements, and enterprise growth goals.

Strengthen system quality by improving backend reliability, data integrity, API performance, service observability, incident readiness, and production support processes.

Support AI-enabled product and infrastructure initiatives by building system layers, data pathways, workflow automation, service integrations, and scalable platform capabilities.

Contribute to engineering excellence through code reviews, technical documentation, architecture discussions, mentoring, standards development, and continuous improvement.

Partner with Security, DevOps, Data Engineering, Product, QA, and Site Reliability teams to improve system resilience, data protection, deployment quality, testing strategy, and operational reliability.

Support customer success and support teams by resolving complex system issues, improving reliability, reducing recurring technical problems, and strengthening platform stability.

Help turn systems engineering into a strategic capability that supports customer outcomes, engineering productivity, platform trust, and long-term business value.

Working Conditions

Remote-first systems software engineering role.

Periodic travel may be required for engineering offsites, architecture workshops, incident review sessions, product planning meetings, cloud strategy reviews, company gatherings, or strategic technology sessions.

High-visibility technical role supporting cloud platforms, backend systems, infrastructure services, product reliability, and enterprise technology performance.

Fast-paced environment focused on engineering quality, system reliability, scalability, security, customer outcomes, and operational excellence.

Regular collaboration with Engineering Leadership, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, Data Engineering, Product, QA, Site Reliability, Customer Success, Support, and business stakeholders.

Opportunity to influence systems architecture, platform reliability, deployment maturity, service performance, automation, and technology modernization.

Requires flexibility during production incidents, release cycles, architecture reviews, security reviews, system migrations, customer escalations, performance investigations, and urgent technical decisions.

Role requires handling confidential customer data, source code, system architecture, product plans, security-sensitive information, internal documentation, infrastructure details, and business logic with discretion.

Job Function

Systems Software Engineering.

Backend Systems Engineering.

Distributed Systems.

Cloud Platform Engineering.

Infrastructure Software.

API Development.

Service Reliability.

Platform Reliability.

System Design.

Automation Engineering.

Production Support.

Performance Optimization.

Application Security Support.

Observability and Monitoring.

Remote Software Engineering.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation Package: $300,000 – $398,000

Base Salary: $300,000 – $398,000.

Annual Performance Bonus.

Systems Engineering Performance Incentives.

Platform Reliability and Service Quality Incentives.

Long-Term Incentive Eligibility where applicable.

Additional benefits may include:

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage.

• Retirement savings plan with company contribution.

• Wellness and mental health programs.

• Professional education assistance.

• Flexible remote work environment.

• Paid time off and company holidays.

• Systems engineering, cloud platforms, distributed systems, DevOps, observability, infrastructure automation, security, and technical leadership training.

• Access to modern cloud platforms, developer tools, CI/CD systems, observability platforms, security tooling, collaboration tools, testing frameworks, and AI-enabled engineering resources.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to fostering a workplace where innovation, diversity, and inclusion drive meaningful business outcomes. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Why Join Us

Build and improve high-impact systems that support enterprise customers, product teams, internal platforms, and digital business operations.

Work across backend services, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, automation, observability, and platform reliability.

Partner with engineering, platform, security, product, data, and support teams to create scalable, secure, and reliable technology foundations.

Contribute to a remote-first organization investing heavily in AI-enabled technology, cloud platforms, systems modernization, automation, and engineering excellence.

Improve service reliability, system performance, developer productivity, customer experience, and platform scalability through meaningful technical work.

Build a strong systems engineering career platform by turning technical depth, architecture judgment, and operational ownership into measurable business impact.