Senior Software Engineer II

Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms role at Compass

Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms role at Compass

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, were revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

About The Role

The Engineering Platforms team provides the foundational infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products with confidence, speed, and clarity. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that shape the future of our entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and developer empowerment.

You bring expert-level industry skills in large-scale platform systems. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient solutions while fostering collaboration and technical excellence. Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by exampleinnovating, teaching, and shaping the future of engineering at our company.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal developer platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience.
• Architect, scale, and maintain our platform's core featuresincluding CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observabilityto meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity. This includes building tools and services that guide engineers along the "golden path" for development and deployment.
• Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem.
• Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, or TypeScript.
• Experience building and operating large-scale services on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and Kubernetes architecture.
• Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and lead complex projects.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with modern, large-scale platform components and services (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, internal developer portals, service meshes).
• Expertise in OpenTelemetry (OTel) or other observability tools, with a strong understanding of how they fit into a broader platform strategy.
• Experience architecting and executing a large-scale migration between major platform components or systems.
• Familiarity with building AI-driven operational tools, leveraging LLMs for tasks like log summarization or creating agentic workflows for automation.
• A deep understanding of one or more of these domains:
  • Designing and implementing systems that drive productivity, scalability, and quality across an entire engineering organization.
  • Managing the full lifecycle of an internal developer platform as a product, from API design to driving user adoption.
    

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $111K-$167K annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.

Perks That You Need To Know About

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.

Do your best work, be your authentic self.

At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

Notice for California Applicants

Los Angeles County Fair Chance Notice Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Compass by 2x

Get notified about new Senior Software Engineer jobs in Seattle, WA.

Redmond, WA $119,800.00-$258,000.00 2 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Commercial Bank

Seattle, WA $128,000.00-$240,000.00 2 weeks ago

Senior Software Development Engineer, Virtual Network

Seattle, WA $177,688.00-$341,734.00 2 weeks ago

Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Experience and Platforms

Seattle, WA $167,000.00-$252,000.00 5 days ago

Principal Software Engineer, OCI Media Services

Seattle, WA $96,800.00-$223,400.00 1 day ago

Sr. SDE, WorkSpaces Control Plane, Amazon WorkSpaces

Seattle, WA $151,300.00-$261,500.00 4 days ago

Principal Software Engineer - Video - Design Experience - (Role based in Australia, relocation provided)

Seattle, WA $172,800.00-$297,000.00 2 weeks ago

Seattle, WA $172,800.00-$297,000.00 2 weeks ago

Principal Software Engineer (Starlink Ground Network)

Redmond, WA $200,000.00-$270,000.00 2 weeks ago

Seattle, WA $212,000.00-$340,000.00 23 hours ago

Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Last Mile Delivery Tech , Delivery Technology Org (DTO) Senior Tech Business Developer, Prime Video FAST

Seattle, WA $133,200.00-$220,200.00 1 day ago

737 MAX Development Airworthiness & Regulatory Engineer (Mid-Level, Senior, or Principal) Principal Engineer - Network Regulatory and Real Estate Senior Engineering Information Developer/Senior Application Engineering Technical Writer

Bellevue, WA $87,600.00-$189,200.00 2 weeks ago

Senior Photovoltaic Material and Process Development Engineer

Seattle, WA $140,959.00-$197,342.25 1 week ago

Redmond, WA $143,300.00-$247,600.00 1 day ago

Information Developer/Senior Application Engineering Technical Writer

Bellevue, WA $87,600.00-$157,700.00 4 days ago

Delivery Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platform and Migrations, AWS Professional Services

Seattle, WA $118,200.00-$204,300.00 1 week ago

Delivery Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platform and Migrations, AWS Professional Services

Seattle, WA $118,200.00-$204,300.00 1 week ago

Delivery Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platform and Migrations, AWS Professional Services

Seattle, WA $118,200.00-$204,300.00 1 week ago

Delivery Consultant - Connect, Amazon Connect Center of Excellence

Seattle, WA $118,200.00-$204,300.00 2 weeks ago

Bellevue, WA $108,000.00-$216,000.00 1 day ago

Seattle, WA $138,900.00-$195,000.00 2 weeks ago

Seattle, WA $145,400.00-$195,000.00 2 months ago

Seattle, WA $100,000.00-$300,000.00 5 days ago

Bellevue, WA $195,000.00-$287,500.00 1 week ago

Seattle, WA $234,400.00-$314,300.00 2 weeks ago

Seattle, WA $148,800.00-$274,600.00 2 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, Core

Seattle, WA $152,200.00-$213,900.00 1 month ago

Were unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

---