Sr Software Engineer II
Sr. Software Engineer II | United States | Remote
Pax8 is hiring a remote Sr. Software Engineer II in the United States to shape resilient cloud systems, establish modern engineering standards, and accelerate responsible artificial intelligence-assisted software development.
Define What Great Engineering Looks Like
This is an opportunity to influence engineering far beyond a single codebase. You’ll own the technical direction of a key product domain, solve complex challenges across teams, and establish patterns that help engineers deliver secure, observable, and maintainable software at scale.
As Pax8 advances its artificial intelligence journey, you’ll grow alongside rapidly evolving technology. You’ll help determine where artificial intelligence can improve engineering outcomes, where human review remains essential, and how teams can adopt new tools responsibly without compromising technical quality.
Build the Future With Pax8
Pax8 combines the energy of a fast-growing technology business with the reach of a global cloud marketplace. Our people are encouraged to stay curious, challenge convention, share knowledge, and build solutions that make technology more accessible to small businesses.
Discover more about Pax8 in the United States and explore our culture, purpose, and people.
What You’ll Do
- Set the technical strategy for a major product domain, guiding architecture, engineering standards, and the delivery of complex initiatives involving multiple teams.
- Design dependable distributed systems using event-driven and cloud-native patterns that support long-term product growth.
- Establish practical standards for distributed tracing, structured logging, service-level objectives, alerting, and production reliability.
- Lead collaborative technical design reviews and document important architectural decisions so teams can move forward with clarity.
- Identify recurring engineering challenges and create system-level solutions that improve productivity across the wider organization.
- Partner with product and data science colleagues to turn business needs into thoughtful, scalable technical designs.
- Define meaningful measures of engineering quality, including test coverage, deployment performance, incident trends, and recovery effectiveness.
- Own critical systems throughout their lifecycle and participate in on-call support when required.
- Mentor engineers in system design, software quality, domain ownership, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence tools.
- Establish clear safeguards for artificial intelligence-assisted development, including validation checkpoints, review expectations, and appropriate limits for autonomous agents.
- Evaluate emerging development tools and guide adoption when they offer genuine value to engineers, partners, and the business.
- Use artificial intelligence to explore design options, assess trade-offs, support complex refactoring, strengthen testing, and produce clear technical documentation.
The Difference You’ll Make
Your work will raise the engineering bar across multiple teams. By creating reusable patterns, improving platform reliability, and removing systemic barriers, you’ll help engineers deliver better software with greater confidence.
You’ll also influence how Pax8 approaches artificial intelligence-assisted engineering at scale. Your judgement will help teams move faster while protecting maintainability, privacy, fairness, transparency, and human accountability. The result will be stronger products, more effective engineering teams, and a more dependable experience for Pax8 partners and their customers.
⭐ What You’ll Bring
- Extensive software engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems and technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Expert proficiency in Python and TypeScript, supported by deep knowledge of a significant product or technical domain.
- Proven ability to define architecture, establish engineering standards, and guide important technical decisions without waiting for problems to escalate.
- Considerable expertise in distributed system design, including event sourcing, command query responsibility segregation, microservices, and service mesh patterns.
- Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and platform reliability engineering.
- A systems-first mindset, with the ability to replace recurring fixes with durable solutions that eliminate whole categories of problems.
- Demonstrated success leading platform, infrastructure, developer experience, or engineering productivity initiatives.
- The ability to connect technical decisions with the business problem, customer need, and complete system lifecycle.
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve their technical judgement, documentation, and delivery practices.
- Advanced capability with artificial intelligence coding tools for complex analysis, multi-file change, automated test generation, and large-scale refactoring.
- Sound judgement about the capabilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, including when human review must remain non-negotiable.
- A responsible approach to data classification, privacy, bias mitigation, fairness, transparency, and validation of artificial intelligence-generated output.
- Experience creating clear technical proposals and architectural decision records that allow teams to understand context, options, and trade-offs.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. Postgraduate study may be valuable for research-adjacent work but is not essential.
- A collaborative approach grounded in curiosity, ownership, candid feedback, continuous learning, and respect for diverse perspectives.
- The ability to maintain adequate, secure, and private internet service for remote work.
- Flexibility for infrequent travel when collaboration or business needs require it.
Trust at Every Step
At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships - starting with how we hire.
To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about - we're excited to meet you.
We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritizing applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.
Bring Your Perspective
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in United States.
Salary & benefits
Target base salary: $170,000 - $185,000, or more depending on experience
Total Rewards
At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:
- Non-Commissioned Bonus Plans or Variable Commission
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employer Paid Short & Long Term Disability, Life and AD&D Insurance
- Flexible, Open Vacation
- Paid Sick Time Off
- Extended Leave for Life events
- RTD Eco Pass (For local Colorado Employees)
- Career Development Programs
- Stock Option Eligibility
- Employee-led Resource Groups
Grow Without Limits
There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace - whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organization. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive - and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.
Why Pax8?
Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.
Pre-Employment Checks
As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.
Equal Opportunities
Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. Privacy notice: https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/
Expected Closing Date: 10/31/2026
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At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust-based relationships - starting with how we hire.
To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change.
By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you’re applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about - we’re excited to meet you.
Perks:
At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Open PTO
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees)
Please take a moment to review our Proprietary Rights and Non-Competition Agreement - this document outlines important information about your rights and responsibilities if you join our team.