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Senior Software Engineer II – Cloud Infrastructure
| Company | Compass |
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| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $131000 – $197000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of software development experience with proficiency in Go, Java, or Python
- Experience building and operating large-scale cloud services in AWS (preferred) or GCP
- Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and microservice architecture.
- Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and execution.
Responsibilities
- Guide technical strategy and mentor engineers on high-impact projects.
- Design, develop, automate, and optimize scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Maintain and improve platform reliability, scalability, and security.
- Manage and monitor infrastructure components and systems.
- Provide support for infrastructure-related incidents and internal customer needs.
- Partner with customer teams to proactively identify infrastructure needs.
- Document and refine infrastructure design and operational practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years full-time work experience on an infrastructure platform team providing managed services or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to sizeable (200+ engineers) engineering organizations
- Led design, development, best practices, observability, tuning, scalability, elasticity, and performance/cost optimization of core infrastructure components
- Has a deep understanding of one or more of these domains: Kubernetes/Compute Infrastructure, Cloud Networking, Observability, Cloud Resource Management / Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
