Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineering

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$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering or related field
  • Proficiency in coding agents like Codex or Claude Code
  • Strong grasp of evaluations, Reinforcement Learning (RL), and LLMs
  • Ability to read and interpret cutting-edge research papers
  • Demonstrated ownership mindset with a founder's mentality
  • Resourceful and adept at innovative problem-solving

Responsibilities

  • Build, scale, and deploy key projects with the Head of Engineering
  • Enhance the core simulation engine by adding features and improving performance
  • Ensure software scalability to handle 10B+ events and numerous users
  • Drive key performance metrics, including throughput and cost standards
  • Foster a positive engineering culture as the technical team expands

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work directly with senior leadership in a growing organization
  • Engage in cutting-edge technology and innovation work
  • Autonomy to take ownership of significant projects
  • Collaborative and research-oriented work environment
  • Potential to influence the direction of engineering culture
Full Job Description
THE ROLE

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will work directly with the Head of Engineering to build, scale, and deploy projects. You'll be expected to transition seamlessly between customer-facing products and our internal infrastructure.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

In your first 30 days, you will take over key parts of the core simulation engine, adding new features or improving performance, driving key metrics such as throughput and cost. You'll be responsible for making sure our software can scale to 10B+ events and tens of thousands of monthly users (both human and virtual). You'll be responsible for establishing our engineering culture as we continue to scale our technical team.

WHO YOU ARE
  • Technically fluent: Deep understanding of evaluations, RL, and how LLMs and Agents work.
  • Research-oriented - Able to read papers and keep up with SOTA literature.
  • Extreme owner - You have extreme agency and a founder mentality; you are resourceful and scrappy.
  • Creative problem solver - You leverage creativity and research skills to design projects from the ground up.
  • Must be highly proficient with coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code.

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