Senior Software Engineer

• 5-10 years of software engineering experience with a strong background in building and scaling high-traffic, multi-tenant web platforms
• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating distributed, high-availability systems at meaningful scale
• Cloud platform experience: AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with CDN infrastructure and web performance optimization tools and techniques
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Pulumi or equivalent)
• Strong SQL and data querying skills; ability to work with data warehouses
• Experience with message queues (SQS, Kinesis, or equivalent) and CI/CD pipelines
• Data storage experience: PostgreSQL, Redshift, or equivalent
• Strong problem-solving skills and detail orientation
• Active AI tool usage in engineering workflow
• Strong English communication skills
• Available to work full Eastern Standard Time hours
• Legal authorization to work as independent contractor in the country of residence

Preferred:

• Cloudflare Workers or edge computing experience
• E-commerce platform experience (Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or similar)
• Snowflake or data warehouse query optimization experience
• Media or high-traffic publishing platform background
• Experience running or leading a multi-brand or multi-tenant web platform
• Prior startup experience owning significant platform surface area with a small team
• Agile/Scrum experience in a distributed team environment

• Design, build, and scale the core platform infrastructure handling high-volume web traffic at the CDN and edge computing layer
• Take an active technical leadership role in architecture design, technical planning, and authoring design documents with a long-term view
• Plan and execute gradual, methodical rollouts: define target audiences, KPIs, and success metrics before shipping significant changes
• Debug complex front-end behavior caused by backend platform changes across all browsers, devices, and geographies
• Collaborate with the data engineering team to ensure testability at scale and build the right measurement and observability framework
• Solve high-complexity technical problems with significant scope and ambiguity, where few established playbooks exist
• Mentor engineers and serve as a point of technical escalation for complex platform challenges
• Stay current with emerging web performance technologies, edge computing patterns, and browser optimization techniques
• Embrace and integrate AI coding tools into your engineering workflow to accelerate delivery and improve code quality

• Available to work full Eastern Standard Time hours
• Must be legally authorized to work as independent contractor in the country where located