Software Engineer, Platform

Outtake is hiring a Software Engineer, Platform to build and maintain foundational systems, tools, and infrastructure that help product engineers work reliably and ship faster. The role focuses on creating durable platforms and systemic solutions while shaping how engineering teams work.

Responsibilities

• Own the foundations that product engineers rely on every day, including the systems, tools, and primitives that shape developer workflows, reliability, and velocity
• Prioritize work that multiplies impact across the engineering org, turning repeated patterns into platforms and one-off fixes into systems
• Develop and evolve a point of view on how engineers should work, then translate that vision into code and durable systems
• Operate in messy, fast-moving environments and steadily turn them into something more solid without slowing the team down
• Build or own internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure that engineers default to
• Remove entire classes of errors through better abstractions rather than one-off fixes
• Build infrastructure that quietly unlocks faster product work across teams
• Become the person other engineers rely on when systems get weird or unclear, and the person leadership turns to when deciding how the platform should evolve next

Skills

• A track record of building and owning foundational systems that other engineers depended on, along with experience living with the consequences of those decisions
• The ability to ramp quickly, operate in ambiguity, and make progress without needing problems fully specified up front
• An understanding of the tension between ideal solutions and velocity, and the judgment to know when to pursue one over the other
• An instinct for leverage, with a preference for systemic fixes over one-off solutions
• A clear point of view on how engineers should work, and the drive to turn that into code, tooling, and defaults
• Experience working closely with other engineers or teams as an enabler, not just as an implementer
• A desire to help define and build the platform's direction, rather than execute against a tightly defined scope and fixed roadmap
• Experience building or owning internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure
• Experience working on agentic systems, LLM platforms, or large-scale data ingestion pipelines
• A track record of being the person people go to when systems get weird or unclear

Benefits

• Offers Equity
• For those in NY, in-person team (5 days a week, with flexibility as needed)
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
• Flexible PTO.
• Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.

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