Senior Platform Software Engineer at Scope3
United States
$150k - $245k
<meta><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h6 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:13pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">About the Role</strong></b></h6><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We're looking for a Senior or Staff Platform Software Engineer to improve the productivity, reliability, and scalability of our engineering organization while contributing directly to the evolution of our AI-native advertising marketplace.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">You'll spend most of your time building the internal tooling, infrastructure, and developer experience that allows our engineers to move quickly and confidently. Because we're a small team building an ambitious product, you'll also jump into product engineering—helping design and implement features across our marketplace when priorities demand it.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy multiplying the effectiveness of an entire engineering team while remaining close to customer-facing software.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">**</span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We’re open to candidates at the Senior or Staff level.</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> We care less about title than demonstrated technical judgment, ownership, and the ability to identify and drive improvements across our engineering organization.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h6 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:13pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Why this role is different</span></h6><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We're a small engineering team building in a rapidly evolving space. There isn't a mature playbook for many of the problems we're solving.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Success here requires engineers who:</span></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">enjoy creating structure from ambiguity</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">are comfortable balancing infrastructure investments with product delivery</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">move quickly, iterate often, and improve systems continuously</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">actively explore modern AI tooling and look for ways it can improve both engineering workflows and our product</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If you're happiest working exclusively on internal infrastructure or exclusively on product features, this probably isn't the right fit. We believe our strongest engineers are excited to contribute across both.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;"><br></p><h6 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:13pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:start;padding-left:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Responsibilities</strong></b></h6><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Platform Engineering (approximately 80%)</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Improve developer productivity through investments in tooling, automation, and engineering workflows</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Design and maintain scalable build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment infrastructure</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Improve the health and performance of our monorepo and shared engineering libraries</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Enhance local development workflows to reduce friction across the engineering team</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Build reusable infrastructure and internal tooling that accelerates product development</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Monitor system performance and resolve bottlenecks across services and developer workflows</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Partner with engineers across the organization to identify opportunities for platform improvements</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Product Engineering (approximately 20%)</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Contribute production code across our AI-native advertising marketplace</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Help design scalable APIs and distributed systems supporting both human users and AI agents</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaborate with product and design to ship customer-facing capabilities</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Participate in architectural discussions around agent communication, authentication, and marketplace infrastructure</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Help evaluate emerging AI frameworks, protocols, and engineering patterns where appropriate</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h6 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:13pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What we're looking for</span></h6><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience building and operating production systems.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong TypeScript and Node.js experience</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Active, hands-on use of AI tools in your engineering workflow, with a track record of using AI to accelerate development, explore solutions, and improve engineering productivity.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience designing scalable systems and developer infrastructure</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build systems, or developer tooling</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience diagnosing performance issues across applications and infrastructure</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Comfortable owning projects from concept through production</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Excellent collaborator who enjoys working across platform and product engineering</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h6 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:13pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Nice to have</strong></b></h6><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with Turborepo, Nx, or large monorepo architectures</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Kubernetes experience</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Google Cloud Platform / AWS</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">GitHub Actions</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, flame graphs)</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">PostgreSQL, Redis, or BigQuery</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience building AI-enabled products, agent frameworks, MCP servers, or related tooling</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;"><br></p><h6 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:13pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:start;padding-left:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Compensation</strong></b></h6><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The salary range for this role at a </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Senior</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> level is </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">$150k-$190k USD, $140k-$200k CAD</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The salary range for this role at a </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Staff</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> level is </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">$180k-$230k USD, $190k-$245k CAD</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">These ranges span multiple location-based salary bands across the US and Canada. Candidates are aligned to a narrower range based on geographic market compensation data specific to where they live, and final offers reflect demonstrated skills, experience, and role expectations.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h6 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:13pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Benefits & Perks</span></h6><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><i><em style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Details vary by location (USA/Canada), but all employees receive:</em></i></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Health & wellness:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with significant employer contribution; short- and long-term disability coverage; health savings/flexible spending options</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Retirement:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Employer-matched retirement savings plan (401(k) or RRSP)</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Time off:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Generous paid time off, statutory holidays, and year-end office closure</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Parental leave:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> 13 weeks fully paid (eligibility requirements apply)</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Remote work:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Company-provided home office equipment, setup stipend, and access to WeWork spaces</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Equity:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Stock options</span></li></ul>
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