Senior Software Engineer | Scale AI-Driven Systems | Remote

Platzi; Bogotá, Medellín; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

15 days vacation

Maternity/Paternity leave

Equity / option pool

Online therapy

Team retreats

Kindle books

Hardware provided

Job summary

Platzi is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and own the systems behind the product millions of students use in Latin America: the data model, the services, how they behave under load, and how they recover when they break. You will work very closely with the Growth Marketing team and report to the Engineering Manager.

Seniority here means judgment, not distance from the code. You will take ambiguous problems and come back with defendable decisions, considering long-term costs and

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping and operating software in production with depth in system design.
• Strong fundamentals in data modeling, APIs, performance, concurrency and failure modes.
• You've owned a system through real scale or migration and can explain what you'd do differently.
• You can weigh technical decisions against business needs and explain tradeoffs.
• Fluent English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services, data models and interfaces that scale with product and traffic.
• Own production systems: performance, reliability, cost, and recovery.
• Make defendable architecture decisions and avoid unnecessary complexity.
• Use AI/LLMs to accelerate design, implementation and review, while validating outputs.
• Raise the bar through code reviews, standards, and preventing bad decisions early.

Skills

5+ years experience

System design depth

Data modeling

APIs

Performance

Concurrency

Failure modes

Migration leadership

Technical tradeoffs

English & Spanish

Tools

N/A

Job description

Platzi is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and own the systems behind the product millions of students use in Latin America: the data model, the services, how they behave under load, and how they recover when they break. You will work very closely with the Growth Marketing team and report to the Engineering Manager.

Seniority here means judgment, not distance from the code. You will take ambiguous problems and come back with defendable decisions, considering long-term costs and