Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform and Execution Model)

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career advancement opportunities with强

100% employer-paid comprehensivehealth

14 weeks paid maternity and paternity

Unlimited PTO with management approval

Opportunities for professional develop

401K, FSA and equity incentives

Mental health benefits available

GLP-1 solutions available

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform and Execution Model) to join a leader in the Enterprise Technology space. This role will shape the core execution layer behind mission-critical software, with focus on reliable distributed systems and durable workflow behavior in a cloud-native platform. Location: Remote.

Compensation: $180,000 – $240,000 annually. The position partners closely with engineering peers to ensure the platform is correct, scalable, and resilient in

Qualifications

• 8+ years in distributed/platform systems architecture.
• 4+ years managing mission-critical runtimes or orchestration systems.
• Deep expertise in durable execution techniques like state machines and event sourcing.
• Proven experience with security and governance in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools like Grafana.
• Strong systems design skills across storage, queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, Java, and TypeScript, plus cloud-native technologies.
• Comfortable working in regulated environments with a focus on correctness and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own critical components of the core execution model.
• Develop reliable distributed systems that handle retries and partial failures.
• Create platform APIs/SDKs to connect workflows and tools, ensuring versioning and compatibility.
• Ensure correctness through idempotency and data integrity.
• Engineer reliability at scale with concurrency controls and workload isolation.
• Integrate security and governance into the core system architecture.
• Deliver observability through distributed tracing and structured logging.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to design reviews and engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Execution model

Security governance

Observability

Go

Rust

Java

TypeScript

Cloud-native

Regulated environments

Tools

Grafana

Job description

For our client, we are seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform and Execution Model) to join the team of a leader in the Enterprise Technology space.

This role will shape the core execution layer behind mission-critical software, with a focus on reliable distributed systems and durable workflow behavior. You will help define how workloads are orchestrated, secured, observed, and governed across a cloud-native platform. The position partners closely with engineering peers to ensure the platform is correct, scalable, and resilient in regulated environments.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $180,000 – $240,000 annually

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own critical components of the core execution model
• Develop reliable distributed systems that handle retries and partial failures
• Create platform APIs/SDKs to connect workflows and tools, ensuring versioning and compatibility
• Ensure correctness through idempotency and data integrity
• Engineer reliability at scale with concurrency controls and workload isolation
• Integrate security and governance into the core system architecture
• Deliver observability through distributed tracing and structured logging
• Mentor engineers and contribute to design reviews and engineering standards

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in distributed/platform systems architecture
• 4+ years managing mission-critical runtimes or orchestration systems
• Deep expertise in durable execution techniques like state machines and event sourcing
• Proven experience with security and governance in production environments
• Hands-on experience with observability tools like Grafana
• Strong systems design skills across storage, queues, and event-driven architectures
• Proficiency in modern programming languages, including Go, Rust, Java, and TypeScript, plus cloud-native technologies
• Comfortable working in regulated environments with a focus on correctness and documentation

Benefits

• Career advancement opportunities with strong performance
• 100% employer-paid comprehensive health care for employees and families
• 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay
• Unlimited PTO with management approval
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives
• Mental health benefits available through Tara Mind
• Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux

Our client is an equal opportunity employer.