Software Engineer - Developer Platform
$166,000 - $264,500 / year
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Job Description
The Research & Development Org
Pave's R&D pillar includes our data science, engineering, information technology, product design, product management, and security teams. This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500+ client organizations.
Compensation strategy is broken down into 3 pillars - compensation bands, planning workflows, and total rewards communication. We build products that make these processes seamless for customers.
Over the next year, our roadmap is focused on enhancing the entire compensation lifecycle: from philosophy definition to market trend analysis, band adjustments, merit cycles, and employee communication. We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale.
Learn more about our engineering principles here!
The Developer Team @ Pave
The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. We own the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows that enable every team to ship enterprise-grade software with speed and confidence. As an engineer on the team, you'll play a technical leadership role in shaping developer experience, scaling our production systems, and establishing foundational engineering patterns adopted across the org.
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering.
- Passion for improving developer experience and velocity.
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills.
- Proven ability to lead ambiguous projects with cross-team impact.
- Excellent communication and developer empathy: You enjoy enabling others to work more effectively.
- Execution-oriented mindset: You're comfortable diving deep into technical details to deliver real impact.
- Nice to Have: Experience with CI/CD, observability, TypeScript, monorepo tooling, automated testing, expertise with GCP (or another major cloud provider), or AI/ML tooling.
Our stack includes: TypeScript, Node.js, Orbstack, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Cursor, and Incident.io.
Compensation, It's What We Do.
Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. This salary range may include multiple levels.
The targeted cash compensation for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process):
Mid-Level P3: $166,000 - $225,400
Senior-Level P4: $195,500 - $264,500
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