Senior Software Engineer, Platform

You are a strong software engineer who enjoys building infrastructure systems through code. You’re drawn to solving complex problems, especially in environments working with 3D data, computer vision, and machine learning. You like building internal tools that make other engineers more effective, and you believe simple solutions to hard problems are the best ones. You’re comfortable operating in a space that evolves quickly.

The Infrastructure team builds the platform that sits beneath Hover’s application layer. The rest of engineering is our customer. Through software and automation, we make the fastest path also the most reliable and secure. We design and build systems that power our Kubernetes platform, cloud infrastructure, and deployment workflows, partnering across engineering to solve challenges around geospatial and ML workloads. This is not a traditional DevOps or SRE role. We treat infrastructure as a software engineering problem, building systems and tooling that eliminate manual work and help engineers move faster.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Infrastructure team, you will help us build boring solutions to interesting problems while improving the platform engineers rely on. You’ll work closely with teams across Hover to make applications easier to build, deploy, and operate. You’ll collaborate with backend, frontend, ML, CV, data, and security engineers to bring ideas to production at scale.

In this role, you’ll design and build platform capabilities that standardize how services run, improve deployment workflows, and simplify infrastructure usage. This includes developing tooling, automating infrastructure, and improving reliability, observability, and cost efficiency. Your work focuses on building systems, not manually operating them, and will directly improve developer experience across the company.

• 5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with production experience in Go, Python, or Ruby
• Experience building or working with systems on Kubernetes, beyond simply deploying applications
• Experience working with containerized systems such as Docker
• Experience building or using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (or similar tools like Ansible or Chef)
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, with willingness to learn or deepen expertise in GCP
• A systems-oriented mindset; you think about reliability, observability, failure modes, and scalability when designing systems
• Experience collaborating with engineers across teams to build platform capabilities or improve developer experience
• Comfort working across multiple layers of the infrastructure stack and learning new tools and technologies as the platform evolves

Hover has Hubs in San Francisco and New York City, where we expect that all employees living within a 50-mile radius of our offices will come into their local Hover office at least three times a week to build rapport and foster organic connection. At this time, Hover is not considering fully remote roles.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $194,000 - $239,000 annually. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all applicable US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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