Software Engineer, Control Plane

📋 Description

• Own the interfaces other teams build against — lifecycle operations, usage reporting, schema
• Integrate systems that don't fit together on their own, including third-party billing and partner
• Drive cross-functional coordination when the control plane is the shared point of integration
• Improve the tooling and process that keep the platform maintainable and reliable
• Participate in the team's oncall rotation, covering the control plane services you own rather than

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
• Systems breadth: you reason across several interacting systems at once — how they fail, where the
• Experience designing APIs and contracts that other teams depend on — versioning, backward
• Comfort with asynchronous and event-driven systems: idempotency, retries, partial failure, eventual
• Experience debugging complex issues across the stack — networking, performance, data integrity —
• Self-directed: comfortable with ambiguity, able to take a loosely-defined problem and drive it to

🎁 Benefits

• Work on lifecycle as a service with reconciliation against observed state
• Schema-driven, product-agnostic design
• Work on usage and consumption reporting
• Build internal tooling for expert operators
• Small, senior team with large charter and unusual influence
• Fast feedback loop measured in hours