Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Remote. Posted 8 months ago

The role

You will build and operate the secure, reliable, and scalable foundation that allows product and AI teams to ship innovations. You will design shared platform primitives, enforce security at the platform layer, and build an internal developer platform.

What you will do

Design and operate shared platform primitives like authorization, routing, and observability.
Own reliability and change-safety systems including CI/CD gates and rollback automation.
Ship secure defaults, policy enforcement frameworks, and data-access guard libraries.
Implement global delivery controls such as region pinning and residency-aware behavior.
Establish SLOs, synthetic checks, alerting standards, and incident runbooks.
Create service templates and standard deploy, monitoring, and auth patterns.
Build issue-to-PR automation infrastructure with governance and audit logs.

Required qualifications

8+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform/SRE roles.
Experience with CI/CD, progressive delivery, rollback and migration safety, observability, SLOs, and incident response.
Experience developing and operating services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Experience working with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Familiarity with implementing platform-level guardrails like authorization, auditability, and data-access controls.
Strong software engineering skills including writing maintainable code and debugging distributed systems.
Ability to explain technical ideas clearly and work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Valid travel documents without work authorization restrictions in the US.

Benefits

Competitive salary including base + bonuses
Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one
Generous PTO
Company-wide R&R shutdowns
Paid parental leave
Retirement plan support for US and global employees
Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company
Top-up grants based on performance

Before you apply

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of employment history, education, and other verification checks.
Employees may not hold concurrent full-time employment with another organization.
Outside consulting, advisory, freelance, or other professional work must be disclosed and approved in advance.
Identity, LinkedIn profiles, employment history, and references are verified.

About the company

Valence is an AI-first company pioneering leadership coaching for large enterprises. They build AI-powered personalization to help teams work better together using machine learning and natural language processing.