Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Atmospheretv; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Equity

401(k) with employer matching

Competitive insurance plans

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Atmosphere is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to champion platform engineering, focusing on infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and observability tooling for a streaming platform serving 60,000+ businesses and 150M+ monthly viewers. You’ll influence how services are built, shipped, and run while leveraging AI to accelerate initiatives.

You will report to the VP of Engineering and work on-site in Austin, TX, with in-office presence 4–5 days a week.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production services.
• Strong understanding of APIs and service-to-service communication.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure and delivery tooling (IaC, CI/CD, observability).
• Security-minded by default: identity, network exposure, and auth boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Use AI as a core part of planning, building, and shipping infrastructure and platforms.
• Own infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD standards; ensure fast, reliable path from commit to production.
• Define observability and resilience patterns for all services, with safe deploys and root-cause incident response.
• Lead upgrades of datastores, runtimes, frameworks, and SDKs to stay ahead of end-of-life deadlines.

Skills

AI tooling

System design

APIs & microservices

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Cloud computing

Security minded

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS (ECS/Lambda)

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Job description

Atmosphere is the leading streaming TV platform built specifically for businesses. Unlike ad networks or signage companies, Atmosphere is the only true TV company whose first priority is to entertain television audiences outside of the home. Our content is designed to be fun, engaging, and worth watching, transforming gyms, bars, airports, and restaurants into better experiences for customers and better businesses for owners.

We are the first and only company to think about both the business owner and their customers when creating TV content. With 55,000+ venues and a global audience of over 160 million monthly viewers, Atmosphere is redefining what TV means outside the living room.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to champion our platform engineering initiatives and own the foundation our engineering teams build on: the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and observability tooling behind a streaming platform serving 60,000+ businesses and over 150 million monthly viewers. You're a software engineer first. You understand how applications are built, how services talk to each other, and how the different parts of a system depend on one another. You also care about how software gets built, shipped, and run, and you want to own it. You'll partner closely with every engineering team, and your impact will show up in how quickly and confidently they're able to ship. AI is central to how you'll work: you'll use it heavily to execute platform initiatives and move faster than a platform team twice the size.

This position will report to the VP, Engineering, and is on-site in Austin, TX! Availability to be in-office 4-5 days a week is required.

What you'll do

• Use AI as a core part of how you plan, build, and ship.
• Be motivated, naturally curious, and enjoy solving new problems alongside other engineers.
• Build the tooling that makes AI effective for every other engineer.
• Own our infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD: module design and standards, keeping declared state and reality converged, and a fast, reliable path from commit to production.
• Define observability and resilience patterns across the org: every service measurable, debuggable, and alertable by default, safe deploy patterns, and incident response focused on root-cause fixes.
• Lead upgrades of datastores, runtimes, frameworks, and SDKs ahead of end-of-life deadlines, including the application-code changes they require, and automate away recurring toil like dependency upgrades and environment provisioning.
• Drive security remediation: triage cloud security findings, harden identity and network configuration, and close authentication gaps.
• Champion simplification by decommissioning unused infrastructure, deleting dead code, and keeping our footprint (and cloud bill) no larger than it needs to be.
• Work cross-functionally to prioritize infrastructure investments by impact.

Qualifications

• Bias towards simplicity
• Computer science degree or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and shipping production services
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Strong fundamentals in how software works: APIs, service-to-service communication, authentication, data stores, caching, and system design
• Some hands-on experience with infrastructure and delivery tooling: infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud infrastructure
• Security-minded by default: identity, network exposure, authentication boundaries, and vulnerability remediation
• Heavy, effective daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar), including agentic workflows, skills, plugins, or MCP integrations

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Terraform (or similar): module design, state management, and catching drift
• Experience building CI/CD across many services
• Experience running containerized and serverless workloads on AWS (ECS, Lambda) in production
• Experience leading a major upgrade (database, runtime, or framework) end to end
• Experience building AI tooling other engineers use: skills, plugins, MCP servers, or agent workflows
• Experience with streaming media, ad tech, or large device fleets
• Company Equity
• Company 401(k) with employer matching
• Competitive insurance plans
• Flexible Time Off Policy

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Don't meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet all the criteria. At Atmosphere, we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where creativity, innovation, and teamwork matter most. If you're passionate about this role but your experience doesn't check every box, we still want to hear from you. You might just be the right fit for this or another role on our team.