Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience

Pave; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 195,500 - 264,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/Dental/Vision

Unlimited PTO

Region benefits

Job summary

Pave's Developer Platform team is at the heart of engineering, enabling fast, reliable software delivery across product and data teams.

As a senior engineer, you'll drive end-to-end initiatives—from CI/CD to observability—and shape how AI-assisted workflows fit into our development loop, partnering with engineers to boost velocity and reliability.

This role offers ownership in a fast-paced startup environment with impact across thousands of pay decisions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend, infrastructure, or developer-experience work.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end initiatives from CI/CD and observability standards to local development workflows and incident response.

Skills

4+ years of backend/infrastructure/dev

Cloud architecture (GCP or similar)

Debugging & systems thinking

AI tooling (agentic coding / AI‑asss)

Monorepo tooling & build systems

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

MySQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

GitHub Actions

ClickHouse

Incident.io

Job description

Pave's Developer Platform team is at the heart of engineering, enabling fast, reliable software delivery across product and data teams.

As a senior engineer, you'll drive end-to-end initiatives—from CI/CD to observability—and shape how AI-assisted workflows fit into our development loop, partnering with engineers to boost velocity and reliability.

This role offers ownership in a fast-paced startup environment with impact across thousands of pay decisions.