Staff Software Engineer - API Platform

Requirements:

• 10 or more years of engineering experience with a strong background in backend systems and platform infrastructure
• Expertise in site reliability engineering, backend architecture, or frameworks development
• Strong software development experience and comfortable working in a Go-heavy codebase
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving work across multiple teams with differing priorities
• 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 covering API routing, rate limiting, frameworks, reliability tooling, and infrastructure automation
• Design and evolve edge-layer systems for traffic handling, including routing, rate limiting, audit logging, and protective layers
• Contribute to the evolution of internal frameworks in Go and Python used by thousands of engineers
• Lead efforts to simplify and secure service provisioning in new data centers
• Support reliability for over 7,000 public APIs, including load testing infrastructure ownership
• 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 for long-term reliability requirements and improvements

Perks and Benefits:

• Get to build tools for software engineers and accelerate development with internal tools
• 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