Senior Software Engineer, Compute

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build internal platform tooling and APIs that product engineers use to deploy, scale, and observe services
• ▹Own and evolve the Kubernetes platform, ArgoCD deployment pipeline, and Terraform IaC that underpin every service at Persona
• ▹Improve platform observability so questions like 'why is my service slow' have self-service answers
• ▹Drive the Cloud Run-to-Kubernetes migration, removing blockers for product teams
• ▹Design self-service workflows to reduce the Compute team's interrupt load
• ▹Define the interfaces and abstractions the platform exposes to product teams

Requirements

• ▹Strong SWE fundamentals: shipped production services, writes readable and operable code, can debug distributed system failures
• ▹Product instinct: measuring adoption, treating low usage as a design failure, iterating based on user feedback
• ▹Developer experience sensibility: identifying friction in CLIs, APIs, and deployment workflows, designing clear error states
• ▹Kubernetes in practice: debugging scheduling failures, writing RBAC policies, resolving pod startup issues
• ▹Infrastructure as code in a team context: modifying production IaC alongside other engineers, understanding change safety
• ▹Senior candidates: production-level Terraform ownership, including state, module composition, and clean infrastructure refactors

Nice to have

• ▹Deep K8s internals: cluster lifecycle, admission controllers, custom controllers/operators
• ▹ArgoCD or another GitOps tool in production
• ▹GKE or managed Kubernetes at scale
• ▹Ruby or Rails experience (integration with Ruby systems)
• ▹Experience in a regulated or high-trust environment

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• ▹3% 401(k) employer contribution (US) / 6% employer pension contribution (UK)
• ▹Unlimited PTO
• ▹Quarterly mental health days
• ▹Family planning benefits
• ▹Professional development stipend and wellness benefits

About the company

Persona is the configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world, serving leading companies such as Reddit for age assurance and verification, and OpenAI for keeping bad actors off one of the world's most powerful AI platforms.