Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

What is SeekOut?  

SeekOut helps thousands of organizations hire, grow, and retain great talent with its people-first talent optimization platform and proven expertise in diverse and hard-to-find talent. In our digital age, organizations are overflowing with data—yet few deeply understand their employees because people data is siloed and disconnected. Your people are the real difference makers—and once you know their passions, experiences, and the opportunities that will get them to where they want to go, you can better align their skills, capabilities, and career paths to the needs of the business. SeekOut unifies talent acquisition, talent management, and talent analytics to help you grow the people you have and find the people you need. Six of the top 10 most valuable companies in the United States trust SeekOut as their single platform for managing and recruiting talent.   

SeekOut is recognized on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers, Deloitte’s Fast 500, and the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. In 2021, SeekOut was crowned GeekWire Startup of the Year. Founded in 2017, SeekOut has raised $189 million in funding from leading investors like Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group, Mayfield, and Founders Circle Capital. For more information, visit www.seekout.com. 

What are we looking to add to our team?    

As a Senior Software Engineer, your work will involve creating data pipelines, core search infrastructure, and API development. The components and algorithms you design will handle billions of transactions and do so with sub-second latency and in a fault tolerant manner. We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling large scale challenges and building platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.  

What you will be doing: 

• Leading the design of major software components, systems, and features 
• Building high scale, low latency infrastructure and APIs 
• Driving features end-to-end from ideation to delivery, working closely with other Engineers and Product Managers 
• Providing technical leadership, coaching and mentoring 
• Working across Project Management, Product and Engineering teams to design and build features 
• Taking ownership of a feature area and delivering consistent improvements 
• Writing clean code with unit tests 
• Participating in code reviews 

You will be a great match if you have: 

• Belief in Kindness, Gratitude, and Curiosity!    
• At least 6-8 years of software engineering experience focused on building robust services in cloud environments 
• Experience working in object-oriented programming languages, such as C# or Java 
• Software Engineering experience across multiple complete software development lifecycles 
• Experience building cloud base production infrastructure with Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience leading large scale, technically complex projects with numerous stakeholders 

Our Dedication to a Diverse Workforce: 

SeekOut condemns discrimination, racism, and racial injustice in all forms. Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, SeekOut will honor your experiences, perspectives, and unique identity. Together, we strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming. We are accelerating our efforts through our products and policies to take action and advance definitive, measurable policies and practices that eliminate racism and discrimination.   

We celebrate the cultural values of being:  

• An inclusive and diverse place where employees can bring their whole selves to work.   
• A collaborative team where people come together to brainstorm and communicate ideas.   
• Focused on customer success and delight.  
• Committed to continual learning and growth. 

SeekOut is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process.  If you require assistance or accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@seekout.com.