Software Engineer, Developer Platform

About the role

Who We Are

At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 9,000+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.

Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Affirm, Ericsson, Synopsys, Stripe, Doordash, Fanatics, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 80% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.

The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $175M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Insight Partners, Atomico, Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.

The Developer Platform Team @ Pave

The Developer Platform team owns the foundation that powers Pave - from the infrastructure that keeps our product reliable and scalable to the development systems that help our product, data, and engineering teams move fast with confidence. As coding agents take on more meaningful work alongside engineers, we’re extending that same platform to help both humans and agents build, verify, ship, operate, and improve software reliably in production.

What You'll Do

- Agentic engineering: Build shared infrastructure for agent environments, repository context, event-driven workflows, verification, runtimes, automated merge flows, and measurement.

- CI/CD and monorepo tooling: Improve dependency boundaries, differential builds and tests, CI performance, test reliability, merge speed, and deployment reliability and speed.

- Developer environments and platform abstractions: Make local and remote development fast and reproducible, and improve systems like background jobs and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) so engineers and agents can use them safely with less platform expertise.

- Infrastructure, scale, and reliability: Build, operate, and evolve the underlying infrastructure that powers Pave. Improve scalability, performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational health as product usage and technical complexity grow.

What You'll Bring

- We’re hiring across a range of experience levels and optimize for slope over intercept. You might already be comfortable leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, or you might be earlier in that journey and eager to grow into broader ownership quickly.

- You’ll likely thrive here if you:

- Have previous software engineering experience in backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, or developer experience.

- Are a strong debugger and systems thinker who learns unfamiliar systems quickly.

- Care deeply about developer productivity, fast feedback loops, reliable systems, and thoughtful abstractions.