Outtake

Outtake

Software Engineer (Platform)

New York City

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 175 days ago
DatadogPlatform EngineeringRESTLLMsAgentic AILeadershipCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Your work directly influences developer workflows, reliability, and day-to-day engineering velocity.
  • You will prioritize work that multiplies impact across the engineering org.
  • Instead of solving the same problem repeatedly, you'll turn patterns into platforms and one-off fixes into systems.

Responsibilities

  • Ownership is real - individuals own problems end-to-end, from framing and decisions to execution and outcomes.
  • We're building Outtake as a long-term network of builders.
  • This role tends to excite people who like building the foundations of messy systems and get energy from enabling other engineers to do their best work.
  • You shape how other engineers build.
  • You will own the foundations that product engineers rely on every day.
  • You envision and build durable foundations.
  • We trust adults to manage energy, not clock time.
  • We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.

Requirements

  • You have a point of view on how engineers should work, and you're opinionated about turning that into code, tooling, and defaults

Nice to have

  • Built or owned internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure
  • Worked on agentic systems, LLM platforms, or large-scale data ingestion pipelines
  • Been the person people go to when systems get weird or unclear

Compensation

  • Culture & Team: Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.

Benefits

  • Health: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
  • Time Away: Flexible PTO.
  • You will develop and evolve a point of view on how engineers should work, then translate that vision into code and systems.
  • You should leave meaningfully better than when you arrived.

Company info

  • "The team you build is the company you build." - Vinod Khosla
  • Outtake is built by former founders and engineers from Palantir, Notion, Meta, Slack, and Datadog - people who've shipped real systems, made hard calls, and learned the cost of getting things wrong.
  • We care deeply about craft, slope, and truth-seeking.
  • Work here is collaborative and demanding: people pair on hard problems, challenge each other in review, and give direct, thoughtful feedback.
  • Mentorship is intentional, not accidental; people take your growth seriously and expect the same from you.
  • The drive is high: people here care a lot, push hard, and move fast, not because they're told to, but because they want to.
  • The goal is simple - time spent here should compound.
  • You might be a fit if:
  • You've built and owned foundational systems that other engineers depended on, and you've lived with the consequences of those decisions
  • You ramp quickly, thrive in ambiguity, and don't need problems fully specified before you start making progress

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer.
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