Staff Software Engineer, Platform

We’re looking for an experienced software engineer to help build Lob’s platform for our next stage of growth. You will have a profound impact on the engineering org’s strategy and culture, ensuring that people are able to move faster through technology. You’ll leverage existing technologies and bring some opinions of your own to the discussion to improve the engineering ecosystem. You will also be a source of coaching and mentoring for our team members and will help us to hire and retain a team of engaged and thriving engineers.

Some projects to get excited about:

• Creating reusable patterns to simplify builds and releases
• Consolidating deployment tooling and improving CI/CD capabilities
• Delivering granular data retention tooling, creatively managing customer data across software products and services
• Implementing edge services leveraging caching, authentication, and circuit breakers across the platform
• Creating and maintaining reference architectures to launch production-ready services
• Implementing distributed tracing and iterating on service observability
• Collaborating with feature teams across the org to migrate container orchestrators, adopting and deploying with Hashicorp Nomad

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• Be responsible for leading projects from design to implementation
• Coach and mentor other engineers on the team about best practices around platform architecture and general DevOps philosophy and implementation
• Embed with other engineering teams to help adoption of new technologies, and contribute to solving complex problems spanning multiple domains
• Work with engineering teams across the organization, improving tooling, process, internal developer experience, automation, and the entire engineering ecosystem
• Collaborate in an inclusive, fun, learning-focused engineering culture that ships often

• You have at least 5 years of overall experience as a software engineer with platform experience around cloud services and observability
• Shipped large, complex, business-impacting software projects for which you were the primary/lead technical designer or architect
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: Javascript, GoLang, Elixir, Python
• Experience with integrating one or more of the following technologies into architectures and best practices with them: Nomad, Terraform, Consul, Datadog, SNS/SQS, Redis, Postgres, Aurora, Lambda, etc
• Experience with at least one public cloud vendor (AWS preferred)
• Grown others around you through coaching, mentoring, and leading and can give examples of how you’ve done it
• You’re Curious, Compassionate, Committed, and Passionate about your craft and can share that with others

Since great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds, it doesn’t particularly matter if you have a specific degree—we want to hear about your contributions in a real-world setting.