Persona Identities

Senior Software Engineer, Compute

San Francisco · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 57 days ago

RubyRailsDistributed SystemsKubernetesTerraform

About the role

What matters most is product instinct: understanding your users (product engineers), measuring whether they're getting unblocked, and treating developer experience as a feature acceptance criterion.
When ArgoCD fails and every team's deploy is blocked, that's your page.
The team is still establishing its patterns, and you'll have real influence over what they become.

Build internal platform tooling and APIs that product engineers use to deploy, scale, and observe services, with developer experience as a first-class requirement
Own and evolve the Kubernetes platform, ArgoCD deployment pipeline, and Terraform IaC that underpin every service at Persona
Drive Cloud Run-to-Kubernetes migration, working directly with product teams to remove blockers and hand off operational ownership cleanly
Design self-service workflows to reduce the Compute interrupt load. Success means product engineers can do more without filing a ticket.
Strong SWE fundamentals: shipped production services, writes readable and operable code, can debug distributed system failures across layers you don't fully own
Product instinct: you measure adoption, treat low usage as a design failure, and change things based on user feedback rather than your own assumptions
Developer experience sensibility: you identify friction in CLIs, APIs, and deployment workflows and design for clear affordances, actionable error states, and progressive disclosure
Kubernetes in practice: you've operated services on K8s, can debug scheduling failures, write RBAC policies, and work out why a pod won't start. You're willing to be paged for the platform you build.

any engineer, using AI, should be able to stand up and operate a stateful service at production scale with no meaningful infrastructure knowledge required.
The Compute team's mission: any engineer, using AI, should be able to stand up and operate a stateful service at production scale with no meaningful infrastructure knowledge required.

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