Senior Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (Remote)

ezCater; United States; Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

401K match

Health/Dental/FSA

Long-term disability insurance

Mental health resources

Remote-hybrid work from Boston or home

Employee meals

Autonomy

Job summary

ezCater is seeking a backend-focused engineer to build internal developer platforms, shared services, and APIs that empower multiple product teams across the US. You will design reliable systems, partner with product and security, and own quality through testing and observability.

You will contribute to cross-functional initiatives with a strong quality mindset in a remote-hybrid setup from Boston or home, with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience delivering production-grade APIs
• Experience in Go programming language
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Istio service mesh, Terraform or similar IaC tools and CI/CD systems
• Comfort with workflow orchestration and event-driven architectures
• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience building shared platform capabilities used by multiple teams or products
• Strong quality mindset across CI/CD, telemetry and production ownership

Responsibilities

• Build internal developer platforms, shared services, APIs and libraries for integrations and core platform capabilities
• Design reliable backend systems for cross-domain business flows and critical use cases
• Collaborate with product, security and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped deliverables
• Own quality through testing, observability, safe rollout practices and production issue investigations
• Maintain a self-service mindset to improve developer velocity and reduce toil

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Istio service mesh

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD

Event-driven

Observability

Platform sharing

Quality mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.

Are you excited about coding solutions, building features, and driving efficiency while working with an exceptional team? At ezCater we rely on our dynamic and skilled team of engineers to provide solutions that unlock potential and drive innovation in our rapidly evolving environment.

ezCater values technology as a differentiator and a key component of our success. It powers everything we do. We push ourselves every day to improve the codebase, improve performance, and deliver an amazing customer experience. Our team values innovation, pragmatism, and transparency. Technology is the fulcrum that allows ezCater to provide a compelling and engaging experience for our customers.

The ezCater platform team focuses on building shared platform capabilities for our infrastructure so that our engineers can ship quality software reliably, safely and quickly. This role is centered on building backend services, APIs, infrastructure components and reliable distributed systems. You’ll actively partner cross-functionally with product engineering teams to ensure that we are building the right experiences that will in turn drive customer growth and adoption.

What You'll Do

• Build internal developer platforms, shared services, APIs and libraries that support integrations and core platform capabilities.
• Design reliable backend systems for cross-domain business flows and operationally critical use cases.
• Partner with product, security and engineering peers to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped, high quality deliverables.
• Own quality through testing, observability, safe rollout practices and production issue investigation.
• Have a self-service mindset to improve developer velocity and reduce toil.

What You Have

• 5+ years of strong software engineering experience building backend systems and APIs in production.
• Experience in Go
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Service mesh (Istio), Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and CI/CD systems.
• Comfort with workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures and operational complexity.
• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or similar).
• Experience building shared platform capabilities used by multiple teams or products.
• A strong quality mindset across CI/CD, telemetry and production ownership.

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $158,000 - $190,000 annually.

Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get From Us

You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

• Market competitive salary
• stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot
• 12 paid holidays
• flexible PTO
• 401K with ezCater match
• health/dental/FSA
• long-term disability insurance
• mental health and family planning resources
• remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office
• a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
• wicked awesome co-workers
• employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office
• knowing that you helped transform the food for work space

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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