Senior Software Engineer - Platform

The role

You will build tooling and systems that allow product engineers to ship features quickly. This role spans infrastructure and internal developer tooling, including designing self-serve platforms, libraries, and automation.

What you will do

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Pulumi Cloud.
• Design and maintain internal developer tooling and libraries.
• Create and maintain golden paths for common workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and per-PR ephemeral environments.
• Drive reliability through SLOs, auto-scaling, incident response, and postmortems.
• Create observability tooling and shared instrumentation libraries.
• Enforce security best practices across IAM, secrets management, encryption, audit logging, and DDoS protection.
• Own the reliability and performance of the Aurora PostgreSQL data platform.
• Reduce toil through automation and self-service tooling.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and participate in on-call rotation.

Required qualifications

• Participate in on-call rotation

Nice to have

• Experience building internal platforms / developer tooling: code generation, CLIs, templates, shared SDKs, or frameworks
• Strong TypeScript skills and API design taste
• Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, and security
• Strong Terraform and/or Pulumi proficiency
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems
• Track record building production observability stacks
• Built paved roads that bake in secure, reliable defaults
• Security-first mindset
• Aurora PostgreSQL operations at scale
• Comfort with Docker and container orchestration environments

Benefits

• Robust medical coverage (100% of employee + family premiums covered)
• Vision & dental coverage
• 401(k)
• HSA / FSA
• Access to lender partner’s employee loan program
• Remote-first culture
• Flexible time off

About the company

Loancrate builds AI-native tooling to automate mortgage workflows. The company is a remote team that aims to make home-buying simpler and less expensive for lenders and borrowers.