Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Prepared, a rapidly growing tech company revolutionizing emergency response with AI-powered solutions, as a Platform Engineer. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining our infrastructure and developer platform. This position offers a high degree of autonomy and ownership, allowing you to make a significant impact on a small, growing engineering team. You will contribute to core applications, implement best practices, and mentor junior engineers. This is an opportunity to shape the foundation of Prepared's engineering culture and contribute to a mission that improves public safety globally. The role requires significant experience in software engineering and platform engineering, along with expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and containerization technologies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Proven capacity to operate in a platform engineering or similar role
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Desire to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Github Actions, Drone CI, or Gitlab CI
• Proficiency in or eagerness to learn our backend stack (RoR, Go)
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools and standards such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and the LGTM stack
• Strong communication skills and a love for both producing and consuming documentation

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure to support Prepared’s platform
• Architect, implement, and iterate on core systems like authentication, authorization, feature flags, and asynchronous messaging
• Develop and implement best practices for software development, deployment, and monitoring
• Automate repetitive tasks to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the engineering team
• Help the team implement and define SLOs and report on customer SLAs
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the long-term strategy of the platform
• Mentor junior engineers and help shape the engineering culture within the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an early-stage startup
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices and experience implementing them in a fast-moving environment
• Expertise in Ruby on Rails, Golang, and/or IaC tools

Benefits

• Remote-First Culture
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401k + Free Financial Advisors with Betterment
• Monthly Cell Phone Stipend
• Unlimited Time Off + 15 Observed Holidays
• 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave (birthing + non-birthing parents)
• Visit a PSAP (911 Center)
• WeWork Membership for All Employees
• Annual Company Offsite
• AI Tools like ChatGPT + NotionAI
• $500 Work from Home Budget