Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

Tandem
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Act like an owner","Reduce complexity","Fast execution","Direct communication","High trust"]

Own the compute and data foundations that power the entire company. Build and operate an EKS-based platform, drive database platform decisions across Postgres, OpenSearch, and BigQuery, and ensure reliability through SLOs, observability, and incident response. Optimize cloud spend with attribution, lead low-downtime database migrations, and create infrastructure-as-code and self-serve primitives so product teams can provision and operate services safely.

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Tandem
Tandem
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Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Own the compute and data foundations that power the entire company. Build and operate an EKS-based platform, drive database platform decisions across Postgres, OpenSearch, and BigQuery, and ensure reliability through SLOs, observability, and incident response. Optimize cloud spend with attribution, lead low-downtime database migrations, and create infrastructure-as-code and self-serve primitives so product teams can provision and operate services safely.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the compute platform: container orchestration, networking, autoscaling, service topology, ingress, and the architecture/patterns that keep it reliable as you scale.
  • •Own the data layer: drive performance, scaling, and reliability across Postgres, OpenSearch, and BigQuery, and make platform decisions for fast, cost-effective datastores.
  • •Build cloud cost attribution and drive optimization across compute, data, and storage so spend grows more slowly than the business.
  • •Define and own platform reliability including SLOs, capacity planning, infrastructure observability, and incident response for dependent systems.
  • •Build infrastructure-as-code, service patterns, and self-serve primitives so product teams can provision and operate services safely without waiting.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDentalPaid LeaveParental Leave401kCommuter BenefitsDashpass

Key Requirements

  • •Track record operating production Kubernetes at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cluster reliability.
  • •Deep AWS expertise (EKS, VPC, IAM boundaries) and strong infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.
  • •Experience running real, low-downtime database migrations and operating Postgres under production load.
  • •Ability to reason from query plans to capacity plans and keep datastores fast and cost-effective as load grows.
  • •Comfort operating in a regulated, high-stakes environment; familiarity with PHI, HIPAA, or SOC 2 is a strong plus.
Skills:Act like an ownerReduce complexityFast executionDirect communicationHigh trust
Tech Stack:KubernetesEKSAWSVPCIAMTerraformPostgresOpenSearchBigQuery

Company Brief

Tandem
Builds a virtual office platform that helps remote teams connect, collaborate, and communicate in real time with presence, audio rooms, and workspace tools designed to recreate an in-person office experience online.
Industry: Enterprise Software
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