Senior Software Engineer, Optro
Infra Engineering
£100-137.5k
+ Bonus + 15% Annual Performance Bonus Target
AI-powered GRC software
Be an early applicant
AI-powered GRC software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£100-137.5k
+ Bonus + 15% Annual Performance Bonus Target
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine GRC through a single, AI-powered system of action.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software development experience, with a track record of taking projects from concept to production
- Strong software development background with strong expertise in at least one programming language (Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar)
- Experience with Docker and running container orchestration systems (Kubernetes preferred)
- Experience working with cloud services providers (AWS or Azure preferred)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and other cloud automation tools (HashiCorp suite)
- Experience building observability tooling, dashboards, and alerting for monitoring distributed systems
- Experience designing globally distributed systems in a cloud-based, container-based world
- Comfort writing clear design documentation and influencing architecture decisions
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) and good judgment about when and how to apply them
- Bonus: open-source contributions or prior experience defining SLOs/SLIs for production services
What the job involves
- Optro has a stateless containerized application architecture built on Kubernetes, hosted on multiple cloud platforms and regions, and maintained with our custom automation infrastructure software
- Optro is looking for a Senior Software Engineer II specialized in Infrastructure Engineering who has industry experience scaling reliable and secure cloud infrastructure at a global scale
- You'll bring end-to-end experience building, designing, and supporting a cloud-based infrastructure stack, and you're comfortable driving infrastructure projects from concept through to production as an individual contributor - taking requirements from QA, Engineering, Technical Support, and others, writing clear design documentation, and producing secure, scalable, robust implementations
- You love to collaborate but can also work independently, and you're energized by mentoring fellow engineers and helping shape architecture decisions on the team
- Architect and implement new cloud infrastructure to enable high-performance SaaS applications globally in the cloud
- Drive infrastructure features end-to-end, from design documentation through implementation, rollout, and operational ownership
- Build and deliver observability tools and analyze data, working with the application development team to ensure a consistently superb customer experience
- Continue to grow automation for infrastructure provisioning, developer efficiency, and internal tooling efficiency
- Apply AI-assisted development tools to accelerate IaC, automation, code review, and on-call workflows, while maintaining a high bar for security, correctness, and review discipline
- Mentor fellow engineers and contribute to team-wide architecture decisions
- Assist our customer support and sales teams with technical issues regarding the Optro application
- Maintain reliability for our production systems to exceed our SLA requirements, including participation in an on-call rotation for production issues
- Help define internal Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators for the Infrastructure Engineering team to drive better reliability
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers; give and receive feedback well in a dynamic environment
Our take
Optro (formerly AuditBoard) provides risk and compliance software for large businesses. The company's founders spent years working at the Big Four and other global enterprises, and realized that many audit activities were still taking place in Excel sheets, or using legacy software like IBM's OpenPages, which hadn't kept up to date with the latest reporting requirements.
The result was an end-to-end platform for managing risk, helping enterprises to streamline internal audit, SOX compliance, controls management, risk management, and security compliance. It's a top-rated cloud-based platform and has won numerous awards, with the company being consistently named the market leader in Audit Management.
Now Optro is focused on expanding its AI-powered GRC platform. Following its rebrand from AuditBoard, the company acquired AI-native SOX automation platform Midship to help audit teams automate repetitive work and focus more on strategic risk analysis. And impressively, more than 50% of the Fortune 500 now use Optro's platform as it continues building AI-driven tools for risk, compliance, and cybersecurity teams.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2018
$40m
SERIES B
Apr 2017
$3.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.6m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness benefits: High quality health plans and access to hormonal and family-building support.
- Time away from work: Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, sick time, bereavement, and more.
- Financial benefits: Beyond a competitive salary, plans are provided to assist in your financial future including retirement and pension plans as well as life and disability insurance.
- Parental leave: Parents are eligible for time off to care for their newborn, adopted child, or foster child. Parental leave benefits and pay vary by location.
- Professional development: Continuously grow through development workshops, mentoring programs, and more.
- Community impact: We partner with communities to provide services in addition to sponsoring our own events.
- Live your best life: Invest in yourself, on us. Our monthly wellness stipend is designed to support your life beyond the screen, giving you the flexibility to fuel your passions and your well-being.
- Mental health: Access to Headspace’s well known meditation support plus coaching and therapy, for you and additional loved ones.
Company HQ
Wilmington, DE
Leadership
Raul Villar Jr.
(CEO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Raul was the CEO of Paycor for nearly 6 years. They also spent over 8 years at AdvancedMD and nearly 22 years at ADP.
Jim Sperduto
(CGO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Jim spent over 30 years at ADP. While there, they held a number of roles, including President of Small Business, Retirement, and Insurance Services.
Haibei (Happy) Wang
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining Optro in 2023, Haibei was the CTO at Everbridge and Skupos. They also held VP roles at Globality, AccelOps and Scripps Network Interactive.
April Crichlow
(CMO)April spent over 17 years at SAP, ultimately as CMO at SAP SuccessFactors. They then spent 3 years at Centrical as CMO before joining Optro in 2025.
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