Role overview

Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

Requirements and responsibilities

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In this role you will

  • Build and enhance the control plane systems that manage customer identity, placement, and lifecycle across a multi-cell architecture.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of mission-critical control plane services.
  • Partner with engineering teams to provide safe infrastructure primitives and standards for cell-compatible systems.
  • Help operate critical infrastructure through incident response and continuous improvement.

You’ll love this job if you

  • Enjoy building foundational distributed systems that power an entire platform.
  • Care deeply about correctness, reliability, and safe infrastructure primitives.
  • Like designing systems that coordinate state and data across large distributed environments.
  • Prefer solving architectural problems rather than product feature work.
  • Want to shape how a global platform evolves as it scales.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role.
  • Strong proficiency with Python; experience with Rust is a plus.
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong understanding of replication, consistency models, and service coordination.
  • Experience building infrastructure services or platform APIs used by multiple teams.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Experience operating containerized systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Track record of operating production systems with strong ownership.
  • Strong written communication skills and ability to document platform systems clearly.
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