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Prismic · 1 month ago

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

Prismic is a company focused on enabling marketers and engineers to create highly personalized web journeys at scale. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform team, responsible for enhancing the reliability, scalability, and observability of core APIs.

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Responsibilities

Scale Prismic’s public Content API, which already serves millions of requests daily, with an eye on latency, availability, and cost

Build customer-facing visibility into usage metrics (API calls, users, bandwidth), empowering teams to understand and optimise their plans

Implement API governance by introducing robust rate-limiting and clear separation of public and private APIs, ensuring fairness, stability, and security

Empower product teams with AI infrastructure by providing MCP-based creation workflow and seamless tooling communication, accelerating innovation and delivery

Qualification

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Required

Excel at architecting large-scale distributed systems and APIs that serve millions of requests daily with low latency and high reliability

Have deep experience with API gateways, rate limiting, quota enforcement, and fair usage controls

Think ahead about scaling challenges: multitenancy, regionalisation, data boundaries, compliance, and graceful degradation

Care about observability: you design systems with clear metrics, traces, and logs from day one

Balance innovation with stability: you can introduce new abstractions or architectures without compromising uptime

Influence across squads, aligning product, infra, and teams around clear trade-offs and durable standards

Multiply the impact of senior engineers by mentoring, reviewing, and building a culture of strong technical judgment

Stay hands-on when needed: whether debugging a complex distributed system, tuning queries, or landing the critical change that unblocks a team

Are curious about how AI can augment engineering, from anomaly detection to adaptive scaling, and think critically about its value

Scale Prismic's public Content API, which already serves millions of requests daily, with an eye on latency, availability, and cost

Build customer-facing visibility into usage metrics (API calls, users, bandwidth), empowering teams to understand and optimise their plans

Implement API governance by introducing robust rate-limiting and clear separation of public and private APIs, ensuring fairness, stability, and security

Empower product teams with AI infrastructure by providing MCP-based creation workflow and seamless tooling communication, accelerating innovation and delivery

Preferred

Proven track record of leading infrastructure or platform-wide initiatives with measurable improvements in reliability, cost, or performance

Experience scaling multi-region, multi-tenant SaaS platforms

Benefits

Macbook: get top-notch tech to work with

Home office budget: set up your ideal workspace

International share-out, an opportunity to discuss current affairs and compare life in your respective countries, and escape from your usual bubble. Sessions are led by a public speaking expert

Yoga classes: online and onsite, 3x a week

Yearly company gatherings to take a break from the routine and give you the chance to meet the international teams!

(also, other benefits that may depend on the country you’re based in)