Staff Software Engineer – Platform

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Valence

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Series B - Valence on 2025-09

Artificial Intelligence • HR Tech • SaaS

Valence is a company focused on how artificial intelligence is changing the way organizations work. It publishes research and viewpoints, runs events (e. g. , an AI & The Workforce Summit), offers resources and newsletters for talent leaders and CHROs, and appears to operate a product called “Nadia” (with coaching-focused features and a login/book-a-demo flow). Valence positions itself at the intersection of AI, workforce/HR transformation, and practical adoption guidance for enterprises.

📋 Description

• Build the paved roads. Design and operate shared platform primitives used by multiple teams (authorization and routing guardrails, secure logging, rollout controls, observability, queue infrastructure, and the centralized LLM gateway) so teams build on standards instead of reinventing them. • Make change safe by default. Own the reliability and change-safety systems that let the org move fast without breaking trust: CI/CD gates, migration safety patterns, progressive delivery, rollback automation, and kill switches. • Enforce security at the platform layer. Ship secure defaults, policy enforcement frameworks, auditability, and data-access guard libraries so the safe path is the easy path. • Run global delivery controls. Implement single-domain strategy, region pinning and routing, residency-aware behavior, and cross-region config consistency checks for enterprise customers worldwide. • Raise the operational bar. Establish SLOs, synthetic checks, alerting standards, and incident runbooks and drills that drive faster detection and recovery. • Build the internal developer platform. Create service templates, blessed internal-tool paths, and standard deploy, monitoring, and auth patterns that make the right thing the default thing. • Operate an AI-native engineering plane. Build issue-to-PR automation infrastructure with governance, human-in-control workflows, and audit logs that convert signals into auditable, human-approved execution outcomes.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform/SRE roles, with a track record of building systems other teams depend on • You build reusable primitives, not one-off features. You think in terms of paved roads, secure defaults, and standards that scale across many teams. • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, progressive delivery, rollback and migration safety, observability, SLOs, and incident response. • Comfortable developing and operating services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and working with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). • Familiarity with implementing platform-level guardrails (authorization, auditability, data-access controls, and policy enforcement) in a privacy- and residency-conscious way. • Strong software engineering skills, including writing maintainable code, debugging distributed systems, and collaborating in cross-functional teams. • Eagerness to tackle unfamiliar problems, learn new technologies, and shape our platform and culture. • Ability to explain technical ideas clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one • Generous PTO, company-wide R&R shutdowns, and paid parental leave • Retirement plan support for US and global employees • Outsized missions from day one, with direct responsibility for company-defining projects • Work alongside the executive team with transparency into strategy and decision-making • Influence on direction through real-time customer feedback and market insights • Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company at a growth inflection point • Financial upside that comes from scaling fast • Top-up grants as we scale and you deliver exceptional performance • A culture built for top talent: intensity to win, growth without limits, and a team that solves hard problems and celebrates big wins together