Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform

Who We Are

At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.

Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 58% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.

The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.

The R&D Org

Pave's R&D pillar includes our data science, engineering, information technology, product design, product management, and security teams. This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500+ client organizations.

Our engineering team moves between ideation, scoping, and execution in a matter of days while closely iterating with cross-functional partners on requirements. At Pave, we use TypeScript, Node.js, and React, hosted on GCP.

Compensation strategy is broken down into 3 pillars - compensation bands , planning workflows , and total rewards communication . We build products that make these processes seamless for customers.

Over the next year, our roadmap is focused on enhancing the entire compensation lifecycle: from philosophy definition to market trend analysis, band adjustments, merit cycles, and employee communication. We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale.

The Developer Team @ Pave

The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. We own the developer experience and infrastructure that enable every team to ship enterprise-grade software quickly and confidently.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you’ll help define how Pave builds software. As a senior engineer, you’ll lead initiatives end to end - from setting CI/CD and observability standards to rethinking local development workflows and incident response processes. You’ll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.


• High developer empathy - you love improving workflows and enabling others to move faster.


• Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects with cross-team impact.


• Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar), security, and reliability best practices.


• Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with experience scaling production systems.


• Nice to Have: Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or internal developer platforms in enterprise SaaS environments.

Our stack includes: TypeScript, Node.js, Orbstack, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Cursor, 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.

The targeted cash compensation for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process):

$195,500 - $264,500

Life @ Pave

Since being founded in 2019, Pave has established a robust global footprint. Headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District, we operate strategic regional hubs across New York City's Flatiron District, Salt Lake City, and the United Kingdom. We cultivate a vibrant, collaborative workplace culture through our hybrid model, bringing teams together in-person on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to foster innovation and strengthen professional relationships

Benefits @ Pave

At Pave, career advancement drives everything—roles expand, responsibilities deepen, and compensation rises alongside your professional growth.

What we provide

• Complete Health Coverage : Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for you and your family, with plenty of options to suit your needs


• Time off & Flexibility : Flexible PTO and the ability to work from anywhere in the world for a month


• Meals & Snacks : Lunch & dinner stipends as well as fully stocked kitchens to fuel you


• Professional Development : Quarterly education stipend to continuously grow


• Family Support : Robust parental leave to bond with your new family


• Commuter Assistance : A commuter stipend to help you collaborate in person

Vision - Our vision is to unlock a labor market built on trust

Mission - Our team's mission is to build confidence in every compensation decision

Are you ready to help our customers make smarter, more effective compensation decisions?