Pitchbook

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Platform Engineering

Pitchbook$160K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 6+ years in Software Development or Engineering
  • 6+ years in one programming language (Java, Go, Python) and 3+ years in another
  • 4+ years experience with Kubernetes and Docker
  • 5+ years with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Proficient in AWS or GCP

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services components
  • Implement efficient and testable code that meets product requirements
  • Collaborate with engineers and product managers in an Agile setting
  • Provide technical guidance and conduct code reviews
  • Manage small projects end-to-end with minimal supervision
  • Support production applications through deployment and troubleshooting
  • Integrate AI capabilities across the product delivery toolchain

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including wellness incentives
  • Paid sabbatical after four years of employment
  • Paid family and paternity leave
  • Annual educational stipend and tuition reimbursement options
  • Generous vacation, sick, and volunteer days
  • Employee assistance program for emotional well-being
  • 401k match and employee stock ownership program
  • Subsidized emergency childcare and dependent care FSA
Full Job Description
About the Role:

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other's words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth, and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!

As a Senior Software Development Engineer within the Product organization, you will be responsible for delivering the next suite of tools and services that empower the PitchBook platform SDEs. You will be essential in helping to build exceptional solutions relied upon and used by more than a hundred PitchBook SDEs every day.

The team will rely on your complete knowledge and full understanding of the team's business domain to help shape principles and practices. With your strong analytical skills, you'll be able to break down abstract and complex problems into smaller problems. You will be expected to devise solutions based on limited information and precedent to find creative ways to tackle challenges. It is essential that you will be able to interpret, assess and resolve a wide range of issues and be able to select the right course of action.

You will collaborate with external and internal stakeholders of different roles and backgrounds, who may have varying degrees of understanding of the domain. You may need to adapt your style of communication based on the audience you are interacting with and will be relied on to influence decisions to build optimal solutions to complex challenges. Additionally, as an experienced member of the team, you will have the opportunity to provide technical guidance to less experienced peers.

You will be a key contributor to the AI enabled product delivery experience at PitchBook, building the platform features, integrations, and golden paths that bring AI into how everyone in the product delivery lifecycle does their job, including engineers, product managers, designers, etc.

Lastly, you exhibit a growth mindset, willing to solicit feedback, engage others with empathy and help create a culture of belonging, teamwork, and purpose. If you love building customer-centric solutions, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused and believe work should be fun, come join us!

Primary Job Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and maintain components of PitchBook's backend services. Hands-on development will be an integral part of the responsibilities
  • Implement well-designed, testable and efficient code that meets product requirements, coding standards, performance, scalability, reliability, and the organization's goals and principles
  • Collaborate with other engineers, product managers and other internal stakeholders in an Agile environment
  • Provide technical guidance and perform code reviews for team members
  • Design and deliver on small projects end-to-end with little to no guidance
  • Provide support to applications in production in terms of deployment, troubleshooting, and incident management
  • Build and operate AI powered capabilities across the product delivery toolchain
  • Partner with ML Ops to bring AI capabilities into the tools used by product delivery teams in a safe and scalable way (e.g., coding assistants, code review, testing, documentation, search, ticket triage, incident response, service catalog, etc)
  • Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
  • Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications:

Required Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
  • 6+ years in Software Development or Engineering roles
  • 6+ years in at least one production language (Java, Go, Python, or similar) and 3 years experience with a second language.
  • 4+ years experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) and the operational concerns of running them at scale
  • 5+ years experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and GitOps-style delivery
  • Experienced working within a development team in an Agile environment
  • Experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Desired skills:
  • Ability to handle a project through the entire software development lifecycle, end to end
  • Demonstrate ability to lead and/or provide guidance to junior peers within the team
  • Experience with distributed, scalable microservices and event-driven architectures
  • Experience with data storage, replication, caching and search technologies, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Amazon RDS, GCP CloudSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Lucene/Solr
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
  • Strong problem-solving ability
  • Familiarity with architecture trade-off analysis methods and domain-driven design preferred
  • Practical experience integrating LLM based features into real internal tools or workflows (OpenAI APIs, LangChain, or similar), comfortable wiring AI into production tools without needing to own the model layer
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, and responsible AI patterns including cost, safety, data handling, and governance
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:

Physical Health
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Additional medical wellness incentives
  • STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance

Emotional Health
  • Paid sabbatical program after four years
  • Paid family and paternity leave
  • Annual educational stipend
  • Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
  • CFA exam stipend
  • Robust training programs on industry and soft skills
  • Employee assistance program
  • Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days

Social Health
  • Matching gifts program
  • Employee resource groups
  • Subsidized emergency childcare
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Company-wide events
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Quarterly team building events

Financial Health
  • 401k match
  • Shared ownership employee stock program
  • Monthly transportation stipend

*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.

Compensation
  • Annual base salary: $160,000-$200,000
  • Target annual bonus percentage: 10%

Working Conditions:

At the heart of our company is a belief in the power of in-person collaboration. Being together in the office fuels our creativity, strengthens our connections, and drives the innovation that sets us apart. Our culture is built on spontaneous moments-those hallway conversations, whiteboard brainstorms, and shared celebrations in each of our global offices-that simply can't be replicated remotely. This role is expected to be in the office 5 days a week.

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

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About Pitchbook

PitchBook is a financial data and software company that provides research, analysis, and data on private equity, venture capital, and M&A transactions. The company's platform offers a range of tools and services, including market research, deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management. PitchBook serves a variety of clients, including investment banks, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and corporate development teams. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Founded
2007

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