Software Engineer II, Platform

You'll help tackle challenges faced by the largest cloud providers, working alongside a small, elite team on a platform that is reshaping the traditional engineering stack for the entire world. This is an opportunity to grow your skills on real-world, high-scale systems while learning from senior engineers, and to help foster an inclusive, effective, and collaborative engineering culture. This role includes after-hours/on-call availability. Our Scaling team executes on our scaling, reliability, and enablement efforts to support our largest customers as they continue to grow. Our scope includes both scalable infrastructure, and our core backend software systems.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the Bubble infrastructure that scales to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity; Help improve performance and reliability across backend services, supporting efficiency, capacity management, and data tier; Support observability efforts across core parts of the system, helping implement SLOs and surface performance characteristics to end users; Help support billions of requests across a platform that powers arbitrary end user applications, by building and iterating on core backbone services; Contribute to the workflow engine and data tier, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications; Build foundational services and tools that support the next-generation cloud infrastructure; Participate in the triage and on-call process to diagnose and resolve issues, and help implement changes that prevent recurrence

Requirements

2+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, preferably with experience in high-growth startups; Strong coding skills; Some understanding of scalable distributed systems, and a willingness to build proficiency with languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Terraform; Ownership mindset, taking initiative to build and fix; Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of contributing to solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications; Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities; Willingness to participate in on-call processes to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues; Alignment with company values, including a desire to empower others, a focus on team and user success over individual achievement, and transparency and willingness to admit mistakes and failures

Nice to have

AWS experience; Familiarity with the tech stack (Typescript, SolidJS, Node.js, Redis, Postgres, TimescaleDB, AWS ECS/RDS/Elasticache, Terraform, Rust); Willingness to learn fast

Benefits

Generous equity; Comprehensive health coverage; 401(k) matching; Wellness and work enablement stipends; Generous PTO; Flexible PTO (15–20 days per year in addition to company holidays); Sabbatical program; Competitive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision insurance options); Roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation from the benefits package; Catered lunches, team events, and other perks for in-office employees