Staff Software Engineer, Prismic

• 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

Desirable

• To this end, we are pioneering the use of AI to enhance collaboration between marketers and engineers, equipping them with powerful tools to build those highly personalised user experiences & lead the industry towards the era of autonomous websites
• We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team and lead company-level initiatives that define the reliability, scalability, and observability of our core APIs
• 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