Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Platform

The role

You will build and own the systems and developer platform that enable AI engineering and keep engineering teams productive. This includes designing core systems, managing observability, and implementing cloud strategy.

What you will do

• Design, build and maintain core systems for the AI product
• Build a gVisor-based runtime for agentic workloads and a high-throughput sandbox scheduler
• Integrate or build application frameworks to support the engineering organisation
• Own and develop the observability stack
• Harden infrastructure against failures, downtime, and slowdowns
• Plan and implement network infrastructure and cloud strategy
• Integrate tools for AI-driven development
• Identify and drive reliability improvement efforts

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering
• Track record operating at senior engineering levels
• Deep experience building and operating in production infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems-oriented language (Go, Rust, C++, or similar)
• Track record of designing high-throughput services at scale
• Experience writing code and tools to support growing engineering orgs in scale-ups
• Solid working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and modern infrastructure practices
• Ability to ship high-leverage systems fast
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity at an organisational level
• Based in Stockholm or ready to relocate

About the company

Lovable is a software creation platform that allows people to act on problems. It is a generational company based in Stockholm with teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco.