Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Daydream

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

Qualifications

  • Experience as the first infra hire or platform lead at a startup.
  • Proven ability to build tools that enhance engineer productivity significantly.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure with a pragmatic approach to trade-offs.
  • Familiarity with cloud services, particularly AWS, and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
  • Knowledge of compliance standards such as HIPAA and SOC 2.

Responsibilities

  • Own observability using Datadog, ensuring effective monitoring and alerting.
  • Build and maintain cloud infrastructure that is secure and scalable.
  • Drive HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance efforts for the organization.
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate safe and frequent deployments.
  • Design and create complex development and staging environments.
  • Set up and manage data infrastructure for product and analytics needs.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work alongside experienced founders with proven startup success.
  • Chance to make impactful contributions in a growing organization.
  • Engagement in high-level discussions and decision-making processes.
Full Job Description
The Role

We are looking for a frontend focused engineer.

The Role

We're looking for a Platform Engineer who's obsessed with building fast, reliable, and secure systems-and giving product engineers the tools they need to ship with confidence. You'll be the backbone of our infra, observability, and deployment pipeline, owning everything from monitoring and alerting to networking, security, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities
  • Own observability (Datadog) and ensure our systems are monitored, alerting, and self-healing
  • Build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS + Terraform)
  • Help achieve HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance
  • Own CI/CD pipelines to help us ship safely and frequently
  • Create complex dev/staging environments
  • Set up and manage data infra to support product and analytics use cases

Signs You're a Good Fit
  • You've been the first infra hire or platform lead at a startup
  • You've built tools that made other engineers 10x more productive
  • You've got strong opinions on infrastructure, but you're pragmatic about tradeoffs


Team
  • Anton Lin, Co-Founder, CTO:
    • Formerly co-founded Scout, scaled to $1M ARR before an exit to StockX
    • Built and grew several SaaS businesses to 7 figures in revenue
    • UC Berkeley dropout (3 weeks!)
  • Shreyas Parab, Co-Founder, CEO:
    • Formerly first employee at YC W23 startup, Special projects for billionaire Dan Gilbert
    • Started and grew D2C brand to $75k in annual sales, started/sold ed-tech company, Senior Class President at Stanford, student representative on the Board of Trustees
    • Stanford Biomedical Computation
  • Our (currently)

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