Senior Platform Software Engineer

• Tabs is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team, reporting to the engineering leader who owns platform and infrastructure
• Your customers are the engineers around you
• The work is measured by a single question: can the rest of engineering ship faster because of what you built?
• Platform at Tabs is deliberately understated
• We are the first and last line of defense — the layer that makes deploys boring, failures legible, and the path from commit to production short
• What you’ll experience is real leverage: every improvement you make compounds across every team
• You’ll own the foundation every other engineer builds on: build systems, CI/CD, infrastructure, developer tooling, dev containers, and the API infrastructure and standards teams build against
• A lot of this work lives outside any product roadmap
• It’s ours to define, and we set the bar for the rest of engineering
• You’ll also help shape what’s next, like the internal platform-as-a-service we’re planning to build
• All of it supports a product that runs the contract-to-cash lifecycle for high-growth companies, where reliability is measured in real money
• We move on two-week cycles, and the platform keeps up
• We work hard. Two-week sprints, weekly ship goals, short feedback cycles. Built around intra-month product releases
• We work smart. Get in front of the other engineering teams, use both data and customer feedback to drive decisions, while keeping the bigger picture in mind
• We work together. In-office culture with people you want to work with. Lots of whiteboard space. Expense coffee, lunch, and dinner when in the office
• Own platform and infrastructure work that shortens the path from an engineer’s commit to production
• Build and evolve the build systems, CI/CD, and developer tooling the whole engineering team relies on every day
• Improve observability and operational tooling so problems surface early and are cheap to diagnose
• Make hard tradeoffs on behalf of the wider engineering org, and explain the reasoning behind them
• Partner with product engineering teams to find out what’s actually slowing them down, then go fix it
• Write production-quality code and automation across the stack, not just at the infrastructure layer

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO: You decide when and how long to take time off
• Fully paid health insurance: Fully paid medical, dntal, and vision insurance
• Complimentary meals: Free lunch and dinner in the office
• Parental leave: Generous paid leave to new parents
• Commuter benefits: Tax-free commuter benefits
• Regular team events: We work hard and play hard

• You get genuine satisfaction from solving other engineers’ problems
• You make pragmatic calls under constraint and can defend them
• Startup experience is a must — you’ve owned broad surface area at a company moving through a growth stage, not one narrow specialty on a large, heavily staffed team
• Fluency in TypeScript, Python, or a similar modern language, with the judgment to write code others will maintain
• You’d rather build the thing nobody notices than the thing everyone sees
• You dive deep instead of handing off, and you finish what you pick up
• You have no ego about it — this team operates as a team
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and build tooling
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong foundation in computer science and coding
• Experience operating production systems and reasoning about failure modes