Senior Software Engineer, Compass
Engineering Platforms
$111-167k
+ Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions)
Real estate technology platform
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Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$111-167k
+ Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- You bring expert-level industry skills in large-scale platform systems
- You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient solutions while fostering collaboration and technical excellence
- Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems
- Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, or TypeScript
- Experience building and operating large-scale services on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and Kubernetes architecture
- Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and lead complex projects
Desirable
- Deep experience with modern, large-scale platform components and services (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, internal developer portals, service meshes)
- Expertise in OpenTelemetry (OTel) or other observability tools, with a strong understanding of how they fit into a broader platform strategy
- Experience architecting and executing a large-scale migration between major platform components or systems
- Familiarity with building AI-driven operational tools, leveraging LLMs for tasks like log summarization or creating agentic workflows for automation
- A deep understanding of one or more of these domains:
- Designing and implementing systems that drive productivity, scalability, and quality across an entire engineering organization
- Managing the full lifecycle of an internal developer platform as a product, from API design to driving user adoption
What the job involves
- The Engineering Platforms team provides the foundational infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products with confidence, speed, and clarity
- As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that shape the future of our entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and developer empowerment
- You lead by example—innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of engineering at our company
- Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal developer platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience
- Architect, scale, and maintain our platform's core features—including CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observability—to meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity. This includes building tools and services that guide engineers along the "golden path" for development and deployment
- Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem
- Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them
- Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs
Our take
Compass uses an AI-driven platform to smooth out and speed up the process of buying, selling, or renting property. It functions much like a traditional broker, but employs tech to reduce the time, uncertainty, cost and friction of transactions for buyers, sellers & agents.
It's disrupting a sector so far largely averse to tech innovation, allowing users to close deals in less time than the industry average of 30-45 days. Compass is now the largest independent real estate brokerage in the USA, with over 29,000 agents nationwide.
Despite being a leading residential brokerage and competing well, Compass has remained unprofitable. While the company is replanning its cost structure to be profitable over the next year, it announced its third round of payoffs in early January 2023. Its profit-generating plans include expanding into mortgages, escrow & title services.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2019
$370m
SERIES G
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Working
- Work From Home Opportunities
- Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time
- Paid Parental, Marriage, and Recharge Leave
- Medical, Tele-Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter Program
- Life and disability insurance
- Maven (a support system for new parents)
- Carrot (fertility benefits)
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Robert Reffkin
(CEO)After 2 years at McKinsey, Robert worked as a Lazard Associate and White House Fellow. They joined Goldman Sachs in 2006, where they worked as VP of Principal Investment before leaving in 2012 to found Compass. Alongside this, Robert ran 50 marathons in 50 states to raise $1 million dollars for for youth education and enrichment programs.
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