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Senior Software Engineer – Core Infrastructure
| Company | Bombas |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $130000 – $150000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ years of overall engineering experience, with 3+ years working closely with infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling
- Solid proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, and a strong comfort level writing backend application code
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), particularly through tools like Terraform, Serverless Framework, or CDK
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting distributed systems or application performance issues
- Familiarity with tools like Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar technologies
- Exposure to observability platforms (e.g., Datadog) and infrastructure frameworks like Serverless Framework or Terraform is a plus
- A flexible, team-first mindset with the ability to shift between infrastructure and application-layer work as needed
Responsibilities
- Contributing to and maintaining the infrastructure and application tooling that powers our systems
- Writing and supporting TypeScript code that improves developer workflows, system observability, and platform resilience
- Working across engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and performance through well-documented practices and shared tooling
- Helping expand automation and improve the developer experience across the entire software development lifecycle
- Participating in architectural reviews, debugging sessions, and system performance investigations
- Evaluating technical solutions and helping shape the Core Infrastructure roadmap in collaboration with other engineers
Preferred Qualifications
- Agile and excited to work in collaborative and cross-functional team environment
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and can communicate ideas clearly
- A team player who is willing and happy to help
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Belief in the mission and understanding the importance of giving back
- Inquisitive, love to learn, embrace failure, and never give up
- Comfortable working in an open office environment while staying focused
