Join Pave as a Software Engineer to build the infrastructure that powers a leading compensation platform.
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 15 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team at Pave focuses on building and enhancing the infrastructure that supports the company's compensation platform, ensuring reliability and scalability. Key skills include experience with CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling, with a strong emphasis on improving developer productivity and system performance. This position is suitable for candidates with at least three years of software engineering experience, particularly those who are eager to take on increasing responsibilities. Pave fosters a collaborative culture, emphasizing growth and teamwork as it continues to expand its influence in the compensation managem
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Pave's careers page October 29, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 61% of 51 comparable mid backend roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $125,000 across 25 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 32.8% of 256 comparable mid backend roles in United States; GitHub Actions appears in 0.4% of 256 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, Developer Platform role remote?
- It's hybrid — Pave expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the salary range?
- Pave lists $141,100–$190,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, Developer Platform role.
- Where is the role based?
- Pave is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ClickHouse, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, MySQL, Node.js.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Pave targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, Developer Platform role at Pave.
From the original posting
Who We Are
The Developer Platform Team @ Pave
The Developer Platform team owns the foundation that powers Pave - from the infrastructure that keeps our product reliable and scalable to the development systems that help our product, data, and engineering teams move fast with confidence. As coding agents take on more meaningful work alongside engineers, we’re extending that same platform to help both humans and agents build, verify, ship, operate, and improve software reliably in production.
What You'll Do
- Agentic engineering: Build shared infrastructure for agent environments, repository context, event-driven workflows, verification, runtimes, automated merge flows, and measurement.
- CI/CD and monorepo tooling: Improve dependency boundaries, differential builds and tests, CI performance, test reliability, merge speed, and deployment reliability and speed.
- Developer environments and platform abstractions: Make local and remote development fast and reproducible, and improve systems like background jobs and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) so engineers and agents can use them safely with less platform expertise.
- Infrastructure, scale, and reliability: Build, operate, and evolve the underlying infrastructure that powers Pave. Improve scalability, performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational health as product usage and technical complexity grow.
What You'll Bring
- We’re hiring across a range of experience levels and optimize for slope over intercept. You might already be comfortable leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, or you might be earlier in that journey and eager to grow into broader ownership quickly.
- You’ll likely thrive here if you:
- Have previous software engineering experience in backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, or developer experience.
- Are a strong debugger and systems thinker who learns unfamiliar systems quickly.
- Care deeply about developer productivity, fast feedback loops, reliable systems, and thoughtful abstractions.
- Are excited about building the infrastructure that makes coding agents reliable participants in the software development lifecycle.
- Have experience with areas like CI/CD, build systems, monorepos, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, testing, or observability - we don’t expect expertise in all of them.
- Take pride in owning systems over time, not just shipping them: measuring how they perform in production, diagnosing issues, and continuously making them faster, safer, more scalable, and more reliable.
- Are pragmatic, collaborative, and excited to take on increasing scope and ownership over time.
Some of the technologies we work with include TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, OrbStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, GitHub Actions, E2B, ClickHouse, and Incident.io.
Compensation, It's What We do.
Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. This salary range may include multiple levels.
The targeted cash compensation for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process)
P2: $141,100–$190,900
P3: $166,600–$225,400
P4: $195,500–$264,500
Life @ Pave
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