Pave
Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform
San Francisco, CA & New York, NY · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$196k-$265kDetected 22 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsGitMySQLDatabricksGCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsDatadogMachine LearningCompensation
About the role
- The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we're making it happen right now.
- We treat developer experience as a product - the leverage layer that lets every team ship enterprise-grade software fast and reliably.
- You'll also shape how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into Pave's development loop - from scaffolding to review to deploy.
Responsibilities
- Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, with a proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects that land cross-team impact.
Compensation
- 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar), with a sharp sense of the reliability and security tradeoffs that come with handling sensitive compensation data.
- Strong debugging and systems thinking, with experience scaling production services.
- Hands on with modern AI tooling - agentic coding, AI-assisted review/testing - with a clear-eyed view of where it does and doesn't help.
- Experience with monorepo tooling and build systems - keeping builds fast and CI tractable as the codebase and team grow.
- High developer empathy - you love improving workflows and helping others move faster.
Company info
- At Pave, we're building the industry's leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.
- Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald's, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.
- The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we're making it happen right now. We've raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.
- Developer Platform @ Pave
- breakfast, new hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and yes, the occasional Kahoot.
- It's one of the things people notice when they join us - that we truly enjoy spending time together.
- Be Intellectually Honest - Truth over comfort. We face reality clearly and speak directly, even when it's hard.
- Play to Win - We're not here to participate. We're here to be the #1 compensation platform in the world, and we act like it.
- Uphold the Pave Platinum Standard - We hold ourselves to the highest bar - for our customers, our data, and each other.
- One Team - We win and lose together. Titles don't drive decisions here - shared goals do.
- Hug of Jawn - Hard to define, impossible to miss. Ask your recruiter.
- Build confidence in every compensation decision.
- We build software that transforms how companies pay their people - and we believe the team behind that software deserves the same thoughtfulness.
- If you're ready to help shape the future of compensation alongside people who are smart, humble, and genuinely motivated by the problem we're solving, we'd love to meet you.
- At Pave, we're building the industry's leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning.
- Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.
- We've raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.
- The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering.
- Our customers are Pave's own engineers.
- This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll help define how Pave builds software.
- As a senior engineer, you'll lead initiatives end to end, from CI/CD and observability standards to local development workflows and incident response.
- You'll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability.
- You'll own the metrics for developer velocity and reliability, and be accountable for moving them.
- What You'll Bring
- Experience & skills
- 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar), with a sharp sense of the reliability and security tradeoffs that come with handling sensitive compensation data.
This listing is sourced directly from Pave's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.