Staff Software Engineer - API Platform

Requirements:

• You have 10 or more years of engineering experience with a strong background in backend systems and platform infrastructure
• You bring expertise in site reliability engineering, backend architecture, or frameworks development
• You have strong software development experience and are comfortable working in a Go-heavy codebase
• You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving work across multiple teams with differing priorities
• You enjoy mentoring, guiding teams through complex infrastructure problems, and leading high-impact projects end to end

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead technical direction across multiple teams spanning API routing, rate limiting, frameworks, reliability tooling, and infrastructure automation
• Design and evolve edge-layer systems that handle traffic before it reaches backend services, including routing, rate limiting, audit logging, WAF, and other protective layers with strong reliability requirements
• Contribute to the evolution of internal frameworks in Go and Python used by thousands of engineers, working closely with engineers across product teams
• Lead efforts to make it easier and safer to provision services in new data centers by building automation tools and working across opinionated teams
• Support reliability for over 7,000 public APIs, including ownership of our load testing infrastructure and Terraform provider
• Help define and implement best practices for testing, observability, and resilience across the API stack
• Mentor engineers and shape the long-term architecture and direction of the API Platform group
• Collaborate on cross-company initiatives such as MCP servers, A2A protocol, and long-term reliability requirements and improvements

Perks and Benefits:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development