Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. Our customers are Pave's own engineers. We treat developer experience as a product - the leverage layer that lets every team ship enterprise-grade software fast and reliably.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll help define how Pave builds software. As a senior engineer, you'll lead initiatives end to end, from CI/CD and observability standards to local development workflows and incident response. You'll also shape how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into Pave's development loop - from scaffolding to review to deploy. You'll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability. You'll own the metrics for developer velocity and reliability, and be accountable for moving them.

• 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar), with a sharp sense of the reliability and security tradeoffs that come with handling sensitive compensation data.
• Strong debugging and systems thinking, with experience scaling production services.
• Hands on with modern AI tooling - agentic coding, AI-assisted review/testing - with a clear-eyed view of where it does and doesn't help.
• Experience with monorepo tooling and build systems - keeping builds fast and CI tractable as the codebase and team grow.
• High developer empathy - you love improving workflows and helping others move faster.
• Opinionated and pragmatic, with a genuine passion for engineering best practices and CI/CD craftsmanship: fast feedback loops, reliable pipelines, strong testing, safe progressive delivery. 
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, with a proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects that land cross-team impact.

Some core technologies we build with include: TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, Orbstack, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, GitHub Actions, E2B, ClickHouse, and Incident.io.

Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. This salary range may include multiple levels. 

The targeted cash compensation for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process)
$195,500 - $264,500

At Pave, growth isn't a perk — it's the point. As you develop, your role expands, your responsibilities deepen, and your compensation reflects the impact you're making.

• Your Health, Fully Covered: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with a range of options designed to meet you where you are.
• Time That's Actually Yours: Flexible PTO and the freedom to work from anywhere in the world for up to a month — because life doesn't pause, and neither should you.
• Fuel for the Work: Lunch and dinner stipends plus fully stocked kitchens, so you can stay energized without thinking twice about it.
• Room to Keep Growing: A quarterly education stipend to invest in the skills and knowledge that matter most to you.
• Support When It Matters Most: Robust parental leave so you can be fully present for the moments that count.
• Getting Here, Made Easier: A commuter stipend to support the in-person collaboration that makes great work happen.