Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Senior Platform Engineer · Senior · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
Join Tabs as a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team to architect and maintain the foundation that accelerates engineering velocity across the organization. You'll own critical infrastructure including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling while partnering with product teams to eliminate bottlenecks in the path from commit to production. This role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise in cloud infrastructure, modern languages like TypeScript or Python, and startup-scale ownership.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain core infrastructure systems: Own platform and infrastructure work that reduces deployment friction by shortening the path from an engineer's commit to production. Design and implement systems that enable high-frequency deployments while maintaining reliability standards critical for a financial technology platform processing real money transactions.
- Design and evolve build systems and CI/CD pipelines: Build and continuously improve the build systems, CI/CD orchestration, and developer tooling that the entire engineering team depends on daily. Establish best practices and standards that enable teams to ship features rapidly while maintaining code quality and system stability.
- Enhance observability and operational tooling: Improve monitoring, logging, and observability infrastructure to ensure problems surface early and are cost-effective to diagnose. Develop operational dashboards and alerting systems that give engineers visibility into system health and enable rapid incident response.
- Make architectural trade-offs and decisions: Make pragmatic technical decisions on behalf of the broader engineering organization, clearly communicating the reasoning and constraints behind architectural choices. Balance immediate needs with long-term maintainability and scalability requirements.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams: Partner directly with product engineering teams to understand their pain points and identify what's slowing development velocity. Translate feedback into platform improvements that remove friction and accelerate time-to-market for new features.
- Write production-quality code across the stack: Contribute production-grade code and automation across the entire technology stack, not limited to infrastructure layer work. Maintain high standards for code quality, maintainability, and adherence to established engineering best practices.
- Design internal platform-as-a-service capabilities: Help shape and build next-generation internal platform features, including a planned internal platform-as-a-service offering. Define the vision for developer experience improvements that will compound benefits across all engineering teams.
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
TypeScript or Python proficiency
Fluency in TypeScript, Python, or similar modern systems programming languages with strong judgment about code maintainability and architectural patterns. Experience writing code that others can understand, maintain, and extend effectively.
Build systems and CI/CD tooling
Hands-on experience with modern build systems, dependency management, artifact repositories, and continuous integration platforms. Understanding of build optimization, caching strategies, and reproducible builds.
Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, container orchestration platforms, and configuration management. Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or equivalent technologies in production environments.
Observability and monitoring systems
Experience designing and implementing logging, metrics, and tracing systems that provide visibility into system behavior. Knowledge of observability platforms and approaches to making systems debuggable and transparent.
Developer experience tooling
Understanding of local development environments, developer productivity tools, and infrastructure that improves engineering velocity. Experience building developer-focused APIs and abstractions.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred)
Formal education in computer science, software engineering, or related discipline provides strong foundational knowledge. However, demonstrated experience and shipped projects may substitute for formal credentials.
Experience
5+ years professional software engineering
Minimum five years of hands-on software engineering experience at technology-driven organizations, demonstrating progressive responsibility and depth in building scalable systems.
Startup-scale ownership and broad impact
Required experience at startup or high-growth company where you owned significant surface area across multiple domains rather than deep specialization in a single area on a large team. Demonstrated ability to prioritize, execute independently, and make decisions with incomplete information in fast-moving environments.
Cloud infrastructure and CI/CD expertise
Strong, hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure platforms, continuous integration and continuous deployment systems, and build automation tooling. Proficiency with modern cloud providers and containerization technologies.
Production systems operations knowledge
Proven experience operating and maintaining production systems at scale with deep understanding of failure modes, reliability patterns, and incident response. Ability to design for observability, debuggability, and resilience.
Computer science fundamentals
Strong foundation in core computer science concepts including data structures, algorithms, systems design, and distributed systems principles. Ability to reason about complexity, performance, and trade-offs at both design and implementation levels.
Skills
Required
Cloud Platform Architecture
Deep understanding of designing scalable cloud infrastructure, selecting appropriate services, managing costs, and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
CI/CD Pipeline Design
Expertise in designing continuous integration and deployment pipelines that balance speed, safety, and reliability. Knowledge of testing strategies, deployment patterns, and rollback mechanisms.
Systems Design and Scalability
Ability to design systems that scale across team and organizational growth, anticipating future needs while avoiding over-engineering current requirements.
Problem Diagnosis and Debugging
Exceptional ability to identify root causes of complex issues, use data and logs to understand system behavior, and implement systematic solutions rather than patches.
Cross-functional Collaboration
Strong communication skills to understand engineering team needs, translate requirements into technical solutions, and advocate for platform improvements that benefit multiple teams.
Pragmatic Decision-Making
Ability to make sound technical decisions under constraints, balancing competing priorities like performance, reliability, maintainability, and time-to-market.
Preferred
Kubernetes and container orchestration
Nice to haveProduction experience with Kubernetes clusters, service mesh technologies, or advanced container orchestration patterns for managing complex deployments.
Financial services or fintech domain knowledge
Nice to haveExperience in financial technology, payments, or regulated industries where reliability and compliance requirements directly influence architectural decisions.
Developer-facing API design
Nice to haveExperience designing internal APIs and abstractions that other engineers use, with focus on discoverability, consistency, and reducing cognitive load.
Infrastructure observability platforms
Nice to haveHands-on experience with DataDog, Prometheus, ELK stack, or similar observability platforms for monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Build system optimization
Nice to haveExperience optimizing build times, managing dependencies, and implementing caching strategies that significantly improve developer productivity.
Incident response and on-call management
Nice to haveExperience managing on-call rotations, designing alerting strategies, and building runbooks and post-mortems that prevent recurrence of incidents.
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 180,000 – 240,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Competitive equity package
Meaningful equity stake in the company as part of total compensation, providing upside aligned with company growth. Tabs has raised over $91 million from top-tier venture capital firms including Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Primary.
Unlimited paid time off
Flexible vacation policy with no specified maximum days off per year, enabling work-life balance and recovery time based on individual needs and project demands.
Comprehensive healthcare coverage
Up to 100% employer-covered monthly healthcare premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance, ensuring access to quality healthcare without out-of-pocket costs for employees.
Meal benefits and in-office catering
Lunch provided via Sharebite and dinner for any extended office days, reducing friction for employees working late and supporting team cohesion through shared meals.
Parental leave
Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave supporting work-life balance for expanding families and enabling time to bond with newborns.
Tax-advantaged commute benefits
Tax-free commuter and parking benefits helping reduce out-of-pocket commuting costs for New York-based employees.
Voluntary insurance programs
Optional supplemental insurance coverage including life insurance, hospital insurance, critical illness coverage, and accident insurance for additional financial security.
Employee Assistance Program
Access to Rightway Employee Assistance Program providing mental health support, counseling services, and personal/professional development resources.
Free One Medical membership
Complimentary membership to One Medical providing primary care services through convenient digital and in-person appointments.
401(k) retirement plan
Tax-advantaged retirement savings plan enabling long-term wealth building and financial security in retirement.
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial screening call
Preliminary conversation with recruiting team to assess background, motivation for joining Tabs, and alignment with the Senior Platform Engineer role. Typically 30 minutes focused on understanding your experience with infrastructure and platform work.
- 02
Technical system design interview
Deep-dive conversation with a platform engineer from the team discussing how you would approach designing or improving a specific infrastructure system. Expect questions about CI/CD architecture, build system optimization, or infrastructure scalability challenges similar to what you'll encounter at Tabs.
- 03
Infrastructure and operations discussion
Technical interview exploring your hands-on experience with cloud platforms, observability, and operating production systems. Discuss specific projects where you've diagnosed failures, improved reliability, or eliminated operational toil.
- 04
Team and culture fit meeting
Conversation with engineering leadership and platform team members to assess working style, collaboration approach, and alignment with Tabs' culture of pragmatism and team-oriented problem solving. Discuss how you approach cross-functional collaboration and communicate technical decisions.
- 05
Final offer discussion
Conversation with the hiring manager and potentially executive leadership covering role expectations, growth opportunities within the platform team, company vision, and finalizing offer terms including base salary, equity, and benefits.
Full posting
Original listing.
Tabs is the leading AI-native revenue platform for modern finance and accounting teams. Tabs agents automate the entire contract-to-cash lifecycle, including billing, collections, revenue recognition, and reporting, to help teams eliminate manual work and accelerate cash flow.
High-growth companies like Cursor and Statsig rely on Tabs to generate invoices directly from contracts, reconcile payments in real time, and automate ASC 606 compliance.
Founded in 2023, Tabs has raised over $91 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Primary. The team is headquartered in New York and brings deep expertise in finance and AI.
About the Role
Tabs is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team, reporting to the engineering leader who owns platform and infrastructure. Your customers are the engineers around you. The work is measured by a single question: can the rest of engineering ship faster because of what you built?
Platform at Tabs is deliberately understated. We are the first and last line of defense — the layer that makes deploys boring, failures legible, and the path from commit to production short. What you'll experience is real leverage: every improvement you make compounds across every team.
You'll own the foundation every other engineer builds on: build systems, CI/CD, infrastructure, developer tooling, dev containers, and the API infrastructure and standards teams build against. A lot of this work lives outside any product roadmap. It's ours to define, and we set the bar for the rest of engineering. You'll also help shape what's next, like the internal platform-as-a-service we're planning to build. All of it supports a product that runs the contract-to-cash lifecycle for high-growth companies, where reliability is measured in real money. We move on two-week cycles, and the platform keeps up.
How We Operate
We work hard. Two-week sprints, weekly ship goals, short feedback cycles. Built around intra-month product releases.
We work smart. Get in front of the other engineering teams, use both data and customer feedback to drive decisions, while keeping the bigger picture in mind.
We work together. In-office culture with people you want to work with. Lots of whiteboard space. Expense coffee, lunch, and dinner when in the office.
What You'll Do
Own platform and infrastructure work that shortens the path from an engineer's commit to production
Build and evolve the build systems, CI/CD, and developer tooling the whole engineering team relies on every day
Improve observability and operational tooling so problems surface early and are cheap to diagnose
Make hard tradeoffs on behalf of the wider engineering org, and explain the reasoning behind them
Partner with product engineering teams to find out what's actually slowing them down, then go fix it
Write production-quality code and automation across the stack, not just at the infrastructure layer
Who You Are
You get genuine satisfaction from solving other engineers' problems
You'd rather build the thing nobody notices than the thing everyone sees
You dive deep instead of handing off, and you finish what you pick up
You make pragmatic calls under constraint and can defend them
You have no ego about it — this team operates as a team
Experience
5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Startup experience is a must — you've owned broad surface area at a company moving through a growth stage, not one narrow specialty on a large, heavily staffed team
Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and build tooling
Fluency in TypeScript, Python, or a similar modern language, with the judgment to write code others will maintain
Experience operating production systems and reasoning about failure modes
Strong foundation in computer science and coding
Perks and Benefits (Full-time Employees)
Competitive compensation and equity
Unlimited PTO
Up to 100% employer covered monthly healthcare premium (medical, dental, vision)
Lunch provided via Sharebite, plus dinner for any later in office days.
Parental leave up to 12 weeks
Tax free commuter and parking benefits
Voluntary insurances (Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, Accident)
Employee Assistance Program (Rightway)
Free One Medical Membership
401k
Tabs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome teammates of all identities and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can grow, contribute, and feel comfortable being themselves.
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