Sr Platform Software Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Austin Texas (Hybrid) 

Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents, so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.

Care.com offers an array of services that enable families to find, manage, and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud-native platform, so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends on Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Github, SignalFX, Figma, and others to make our lives easier.

Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we’re applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, thrive on collaboration, and are passionate about building reliable and scalable platforms, Care.com is the place for you.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Technology team as a Senior Platform Engineer. The candidate will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing the core platforms and tools that empower our development teams to deliver world-class experiences.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure using cloud-native technologies.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline development workflows and ensure rapid, reliable deployments.
• Implement and optimize container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes, to support microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance developer productivity through tooling, automation, and platform enhancements.
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure with a focus on cost efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
• Build and support observability tools, including OpenTelemetry and Splunk, to ensure the platform is highly monitored and traceable.
• Design and implement event-driven systems leveraging technologies like Kafka and AWS EventBridge.
• Work on infrastructure as code (IaC) using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or similar tools.
• Support and improve database solutions (e.g., DynamoDB, PostgreSQL) to meet the needs of high-scale consumer applications.
• Foster best practices for security, scalability, and performance in platform development.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience, with 3+ years focused on platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Expertise in cloud-native platforms and AWS services, including Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and EventBridge.
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI).
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and service-to-service communication tools like gRPC and GraphQL APIs.
• Solid understanding of observability practices, including experience with tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or SignalFX.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (e.g., AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation).
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Background in building scalable, multi-tier systems for high-volume consumer applications.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages (e.g., Go, Java).
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively as part of a distributed team.
• Experience in agile development environments and startup-like fast-paced settings.

For a list of our Perks + Benefits, click here!

Care.com supports diverse families and communities and seeks employees who are just as diverse. As an equal opportunity employer, Care.com recognizes the power of a diverse and inclusive workforce and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds. Care.com is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please reach out to talent@care.com.

Company Overview:

Available in more than 21 countries, Care.com is the world's leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today's families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits. Since 2007, families have relied on Care.com's industry-leading products—from child and elder care to pet care and home care. Care.com is an IAC company (NASDAQ: IAC).

Salary Range:  145,000 to 170,000

The base salary range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the national salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Care.com’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Care.com provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).