Senior/Staff Software Engineer- Application Platform

About the Role We are hiring engineers to build and own Flow's Application Platform,the layer that sits between product engineering and infrastructure. The team is focused on staying AI first, this role will expect you to be at the forefront of utilizing AI agents and tools to accomplish tasks.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain service frameworks and shared libraries
• Drive AI adoption, championing AI tools, harnesses, and agentic software development, and establishing standards for APIs, background jobs, and event-driven systems.
• Improve developer workflows (local development, testing, CI/CD, service scaffolding)
• Partner with infrastructure teams to help define how services run in production
• Ensure services are observable, reliable, and production-ready by default
• Drive adoption of platform standards across the organization
• Contribute to system design and architecture across multiple domains

Qualifications

• A minimum 10 years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering
• Advocate for the integration of AI throughout the SDLC to accelerate and improve delivery velocity.
• Strong experience building platforms and paved paths for systems in production environments
• Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as, Kotlin, Typescript, Go, Python
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments (e.g., GCP, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience building shared libraries, frameworks, or internal tooling
• Ability to work across teams and influence technical direction

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing)
• Experience with CI/CD systems and developer tooling
• Exposure to high-scale or multi-service environments