Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Dandy is transforming the massive ($200B) but antiquated dental industry. Backed by some of the world's leading venture capital investors, we are on an ambitious mission to integrate and simplify every function of the dental practice through technology. By building the operating system for every dental office in America, Dandy is empowering dentists with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practice, their people, and their patients.

About the Role

Dandy is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to join our rapidly scaling technology organization. As a member of Dandy's Platform Engineering team, you will play a key role in the success of our team and company. You'll design and build scalable infrastructure and systems to support our rapidly growing product engineering function. 

Our stack: TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS, React/Redux, GraphQL, Postgresql, GCP, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Chronosphere, Temporal

What You'll Do

• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.

• Collaborate with stakeholders within the tech org to influence overall objectives and long-term goals of your team. 

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team and others.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure, systems, and tooling to support Dandy’s products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.

• Reinvent an analog experience and disrupt a legacy industry through novel and scalable system design.

• Collaborate with Product Engineers and other stakeholders within Engineering, Product and Data to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

• Advocate for improvements to infrastructure quality, security, and performance.

• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.

• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a high growth startup environment

• An expert in Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine

• Experience in identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities within a cloud environment

• Experience with building observability platforms (i.e. metrics, logging and tracing)

• Experience with infrastructure as code platforms (Terraform, Pulumi)

• Experience designing the architecture and automation of infrastructure within a cloud environment

• A collaborative, pragmatic, and growth-oriented mindset. We are a small but mighty team and everyone must be aligned on our goals.

• The ability to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.

• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.

• Self-motivated, self-managing and takes ownership, with excellent organizational skills.

• Ability to thrive in a remote-first organization.

Bonus Points For

• TypeScript

• PubSub

• GraphQL

• Postgresql Administration (operations)

Req ID: J-267

We offer a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off.

Dandy is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Dandy also fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We are dedicated to embracing challenges and creating an accessible, inclusive workplace for all individuals. If you require any accommodations for your interview or have any questions beforehand, rest assured that we will move at Dandy speed and do everything in our power to meet your needs.

Compensation Range: $230K - $257K