Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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🕒 August 4

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $200k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Cantina

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51 - 200 employees

Founded founded by Sean Parker

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

Artificial Intelligence • Gaming • Social Impact

Cantina is a company that specializes in creating advanced AI characters that can talk, feel, and capture their adventures with selfies. It offers a platform where users can unleash their AI bots in online communities, allowing these lifelike, social creatures to interact with humans. Cantina focuses on building networks of AI influencers and encourages users to explore and build their own collections of AI bots. The company's mission is to foster an interactive universe, inviting creativity and social interaction through digital personalities and AI technology.

📋 Description

• Establish a foundation that accelerates product development by building reusable, scalable, high-quality components • Design and build core services and product platform components, including entities and relationship systems, for use across the engineering organization • Develop and maintain search infrastructure, including search indexes and relevance systems • Oversee DevOps initiatives, including AWS usage, Terraform configurations, infrastructure upgrades, and platform observability • Optimize the backend repository and Go stack to improve developer iteration speed • Provide consulting and mentorship to engineering teams • Promote best practices and guide adoption of new platform technologies • Lead cross-cutting initiatives and consult on architectural decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on foundation-level platform services and infrastructure • Extensive experience with AWS, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code for large-scale distributed systems • Deep proficiency in Go and backend architectures • Experience creating reusable frameworks and tools • Strong understanding of developer productivity metrics • Experience improving internal engineering iteration cycles • Experience with search infrastructure and indexing strategies • Experience with observability platforms • Ability to lead cross-cutting initiatives and consult on architectural decisions • Collaborative mindset

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Generous company equity • Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina • 42 days of paid time off • 15 PTO days • 10 sick days • 15 company holidays • 2 floating holidays • Generous parental leave & fertility support • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like • Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees • One Medical membership