Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Compa

Senior Software Engineer leading backend and infrastructure projects at Compa, an AI startup redefining compensation data. Collaborate to design and maintain reliable systems supporting enterprise products.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeOrange County • California, Colorado, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $185,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsDjangoPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain backend services and the AWS infrastructure that supports them
Develop and scale application backends in Django and Postgres, with a focus on reliability and performance
Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of backend and infrastructure services
Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure automation on AWS
Own reliability end-to-end: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement
Experience making architectural decisions and setting technical direction
Ability to operate with autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces
Act in a generalist platform engineering capacity on a small start-up team
Assist in upscaling the team as new capabilities are developed, learning quickly and building shared resources that support continued growth

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional experience in software engineering with an emphasis on backend systems
Strong hands-on experience building and operating production systems on AWS
Deep, hands-on experience with Python, Django, and Postgres in production
Solid DevOps/SRE fundamentals (CI/CD, observability, incident response)
Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards
Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database fundamentals

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonDjangoPostgresAWSCI/CDDevOpsSREobservabilityincident responsenetworking

Soft Skills

autonomyproblem solvingteam collaborationadaptabilityleadership