Staff Software Engineer – Platform
Rogo
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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About the role
- Design and implement scalable solutions within our Kubernetes-based platform for secure enterprise workloads.
- Define and contribute to reliability initiatives: SLOs, capacity planning, and resilience improvements.
- Identify and resolve system misconfigurations and architectural risks.
- Build systems that support 10x customer growth with clear failure modes and mitigation strategies.
- Own and continuously improve internal platform systems: deployments, environments, and developer tooling.
- Drive improvements to reliability, observability, and operational workflows.
- Act as a force multiplier for product engineers by building guardrails (not gates) and self-serve tooling.
- Bring structure and rigor to complex infrastructure problems.
- Contribute to internal engineering standards and design principles.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership to unblock and accelerate delivery.
Requirements
- Extensive, production-grade Kubernetes scaling experience (not just operating clusters, but growing them significantly from early-stage to production-critical workloads).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs.
- Previously worked in: Big tech → then startup, or startup that successfully scaled infrastructure.
- Strong systems mindset.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity.
- Enjoys being a technical owner with broad company impact.
- Bonus: Experience with single-tenant architectures.
- Bonus: Background in financial services or regulated environments.
- Bonus: Familiarity with banking-level security and data governance.
Benefits
- Exceptional traction: strong PMF with the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms.
- World-class team: we take talent density seriously. We like working with incredibly smart, driven people.
- Velocity: we work fast, which means you learn a lot and constantly take on more.
- Frontier technology: we're developing cutting-edge AI systems, pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning and published research, redefining what's possible, and inventing the future.
- Cutting Edge Product: Our platform is state-of-the-art and crazily powerful. We're creating tools that make people smarter, reinventing finance works.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Kubernetesscalable solutionsreliability initiativescapacity planningsystem misconfigurationsarchitectural risksself-serve toolingdistributed systemssingle-tenant architecturesdata governance
Soft Skills
systems mindsetoperating in ambiguitytechnical ownershipcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershiporganizational skillsadaptabilityinitiative