Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Opportunity Overview:

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering to help shape the future of how we build, deploy, and operate software at Cohere. In this role, you’ll drive improvements across DevOps, SRE, and developer experience - building a platform that is scalable, reliable, and intuitive for engineers to use. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to enable high-quality, high-velocity delivery across the organization, with a direct impact on how our teams ship software at scale.

What you’ll do:

• Lead development of scalable, reliable, high-performance platform infrastructure
• Drive deployment and release strategies to improve safety, consistency, and speed
• Improve developer experience through CI/CD enhancements and faster feedback cycles
• Establish observability and SRE practices to strengthen monitoring, reliability, and incident response
• Design environments that support consistent testing, validation, and safe releases
• Partner cross-functionally and provide technical leadership, mentoring teams on platform and reliability best practices

What you’ll need:

• 9+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, with a focus on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE
• Proven ability to design and build scalable, reliable platform systems supporting production workloads
• Strong backend experience (Java/Spring or similar) and hands-on experience with AWS, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines
• Deep understanding of system design, observability, and production operations
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and containerization/orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS)
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, modern deployment strategies (canary, blue-green), and messaging systems
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and proactively improve platform performance and developer productivity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Pay & Perks:

💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel

🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program

📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account

🏝️ Flex Time Off + company holidays

👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

🐶 Pet insurance

The salary range for this position is $185,000 to $210,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and i