
Senior Software Engineer – Platform
Finch
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Live by and champion our values: #empathy, #execution, #humility, #curiosity.
- Lead critical infrastructure projects and drive architectural decisions that will span across multiple teams ranging from problem definition/scoping to execution and see it through to successful and smooth delivery of impactful solutions
- Establish platform engineering standards and partner with product teams on reliability, performance, and architecture
- Be hands on in various parts of the system like AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling and application layer.
- Communicate platform priorities and trade-offs to engineering leadership and help them with building a prioritized roadmap.
- Mentor other engineers who need technical guidance.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles.
- Experience managing large backlogs and making prioritization trade-offs.
- Proven ability to stabilize unreliable systems (CI, infrastructure, observability).
- Mentorship experience—you'll guide engineers who need technical leadership.
- Strong communication skills to advocate for platform needs and explain trade-offs.
- Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy—you'll define what "good" looks like.
- Ability to balance tech debt paydown with new feature delivery.
Benefits
- Competitive equity with a **10-year exercise window**
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees, 85% for dependents)
- Unlimited PTO (with a 3-week minimum)
- 401(k) plan
- Regular team offsites and meetups
- Hybrid work: 2+ days/week in our SF Office
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend engineeringinfrastructure engineeringplatform engineeringSREDevOpsCI/CDAWSobservabilitytechnical mentorshipsystem stabilization
Soft Skills
empathyexecutionhumilitycuriositycommunicationleadershipproblem definitionprioritizationautonomyambiguity management