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Senior Software Engineer (Platform Core)

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Senior Software Engineer (Platform Core) in USA

  • Pindrop
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs for high-volume customer interactions.
  • Own platform work from problem framing and technical planning through implementation, rollout, and production support.
  • Improve reliability, scalability, latency, cost, and SLA performance across shared platform systems.
  • Partner with Product, SRE, and engineering teams to deliver platform improvements without destabilizing live traffic.
  • Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, alerting, runbook improvements, deployment quality, and capacity planning.
  • Contribute to code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, and mentorship.

Requirements

  • 5–7+ years of experience building backend services and APIs in production, or equivalent practical depth.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go.
  • Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Production ownership experience including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call support for high-scale services.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ, with the ability to reason about reliability, performance, and scale tradeoffs.
  • Preferred experience with Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, IAM, Terraform, observability, and database scaling or migration.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with flexibility and autonomy.
  • Regular team off-sites, company-wide events, and intentional in-person gatherings.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Health and welfare plans, including an employer-paid employee-only plan.
  • Employer contributions to a Health Savings Account.
  • Vision and dental coverage for employees and families.
  • Paid parental leave for birth, adoptive, and foster parents.
  • One year of diaper delivery for new additions to the family.
  • Monthly phone and internet allowance.
  • Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits.
  • Annual learning and development stipend for growth, certifications, and continued education.
  • RSUs are offered to all employees.

Salary: $130k - $170k/yr

Pindrop

Pindrop builds voice and digital identity verification and fraud detection software for enterprises, offering call center authentication, continuous risk scoring, and deepfake detection. Customers include major U.S. banks as well as insurers and healthcare providers. Founded in 2011 and headquart...

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