Platform Software Engineer - Staff/Principal

Seeq; United States; Remote; USD 188,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Cash bonus incentives

Unlimited PTO

Internet and mobile phone reimbursess

Annual company meetups

4-week paid sabbatical every 7 years

Vacation bonus program

Generous home office allowance

Pet-friendly workspace

Job summary

Seeq is hiring a Software Engineer - Platform to design and build the internal platform and services used by multiple engineering teams. You will mentor engineers, set high standards, and drive secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will evolve interfaces, migrate functionality to new services, and enable efficient software delivery across distributed systems. This role emphasizes leadership while remaining hands-on in platform development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, focusing on platform services or distributed systems.
• Strong backend experience with Go or Python and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the internal platform and services used by other engineering teams.
• Mentor and guide engineers to uphold high technical standards.
• Expand platform capabilities, improve interfaces between systems and migrate functionality.
• Develop multi-tenant clusters and apply security best practices.
• Lead architecture discussions and optimize cost and performance of infrastructure.

Skills

Backend development

Go/Python

Distributed systems

System architecture

Leadership

Remote collaboration

Agile/CI-CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Job description

What You Will Do

As a Software Engineer - Platform, you will be instrumental in designing and building our internal platform: the infrastructure and services that other engineering teams at Seeq use to deploy and operate our software products. Working as a key technical leader, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management and fellow engineers to architect and implement robust and secure internal platform components. You will also mentor and guide engineering teammates, ensuring high technical standards and effective collaboration.

You will focus on enhancing the internal platform to provide common services and capabilities to application teams, so that they can focus on innovating for our customers rather than figuring out how to best deploy and operate their software. The infrastructure and services you build will enable the scalability and reliability of our products. Your responsibilities will include evolving interfaces between systems, optimizing infrastructure, migrating existing functionality to new services and infrastructure, enabling efficient software delivery, building multi-tenant clusters, and integrating security best practices.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building platform services, infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Proficient in backend technologies with strong experience in languages like Go or Python
• Proficient with infrastructure as code configuration systems like Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP; distributed systems including Kubernetes; and microservice architectures
• Experience building scalable, reliable platforms that support data-intensive applications
• Expertise in infrastructure development and configuration, software delivery, and integrating security practices in platform development
• Strong background in system architecture, production system migration, and infrastructure cost and performance optimization
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills, with experience guiding engineering teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional and remote work environment
• Passion for continuous improvement and adopting modern development methodologies like Agile and CI/CD
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience

Leveling

We are hiring across Staff and Principal levels for this role. Level will be determined based on experience, technical depth, and demonstrated scope and impact. Engineers at all levels are expected to remain hands-on; the scope of technical leadership and influence increases by level.

Staff: Operates with team-level scope and influence, leading complex multi-person efforts, providing architectural direction, and raising the effectiveness of engineers around them.

Principal: Operates with multi-team scope and influence, leading complex cross-team initiatives, shaping system-wide architecture and longer-term technical direction, and multiplying the effectiveness of teams.

Seeq is a remote-first (and only) company founded by serial entrepreneurs. Our executive team and board of directors have extensive experience with successful startup ventures in high-growth environments.

We are founded on the idea that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily getting business insight from their industrial process data. Our mission is to provide software and services that convert that data into meaningful information that the business can use to improve profitability and sustainability.

We have a wonderful, kind-hearted, talented team that loves to collaborate, lead by example, and exceed our customers’ expectations. We are certified as a great place to work, and included in the Technology Fast 500 and Inc.Magazine’s Best Places to Work.

The Perks of Working at Seeq

• Competitive salary, equity, and cash bonus incentives
  • $187,500 - 220,000 USD
• Benefits:
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Internet and mobile phone reimbursements
  • Annual company meetups
  • 4-week paid sabbatical every 7 years at Seeq
  • Vacation bonus program
  • Generous home office allowance
  • The best co-workers (we’ve analyzed the data, so we know it’s true.)
  • Pet-friendly workspace (your dog will be so happy to have you home)
  • A job you’ll love!

Seeq provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

You must be authorized to work in the country in which you reside. Seeq does not sponsor US F1 or H-1B work visas