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About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering team, you will own the reliability, performance, and scalability of the production infrastructure. You will build the infrastructure, shared services, and self-service tools that engineers rely on, and run the systems that process and serve critical ad data. This role involves evolving the data layer, scaling processing pipelines, and automating processes, with a significant impact on system design, operation, observation, and scaling.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability and performance of production systems.
- Lead database migrations and rearchitecture projects from planning through cutover with minimal disruption.
- Scale infrastructure and data processing pipelines to meet growing data volumes.
- Build self-service tools and automation for engineer deployment, testing, and debugging.
- Maintain and improve staging, development environments, deployment automation, and testing infrastructure.
- Enhance system observability using AI-assisted workflows.
- Respond to production incidents and lead post-incident reviews for lasting fixes.
- Collaborate with Information Security, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure system security and identify feasibility risks.
- Set and meet reliability and performance targets for the platform.
Requirements
- Experience leading a database migration or significant architectural change on a live production system.
- Deep, hands-on experience with cloud data platforms in production, including performance tuning and query optimization.
- Proven track record of scaling web applications and their infrastructure, with a strong grounding in observability, monitoring, and alerting.
- Comfort reading and writing production code, ideally in Ruby on Rails.
- Day-to-day use of AI tools such as Claude to build workflows and automation.
- Clear communication skills, including explaining technical trade-offs and writing documentation.
- Experience with a major cloud platform like AWS or DigitalOcean.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Ansible).
- Experience with Datadog or similar monitoring tools.
- Experience with high-volume data or media pipelines (nice to have).
- Experience with internal developer platforms or self-service tooling (nice to have).
- Experience working within a formal information security program (nice to have).
Skills
- Cloud data platforms
- Performance tuning
- Query optimization
- Web application scaling
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Production code development
- Ruby on Rails
- AI tools
- Workflow automation
- AWS
- DigitalOcean
- Ansible
- Datadog
Location
- Portland, Oregon
Work Type
- Full time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $132,300–$161,700
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision (US)
- Private Medical Insurance and Health Cash Plan (UK)
- Generous time off + bank holidays
- Education budget
- Annual subscription to Calm and Headspace
- Monthly coaching
- Competitive salary and commission plan
- Stock options
- 4-month full pay parenting leave
- Employee contributions to a 401(k)
About the Company
- CreativeX is building the system of creative control for an AI-first marketing world, using computer vision and machine learning to extract creative data from digital advertising copy. We transform dark signals into a standardized data model at industrial scale, creating a unique first-party data set that represents an untapped reservoir of advertising performance. Our objective is to help marketing organizations power every creative decision with data. We are an end-to-end solution to ingest, process, and analyze content at scale, helping brands isolate creative elements for analysis against downstream ad impact metrics.
Equal Opportunity
- CreativeX provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees.
- As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure workplace, CreativeX conducts standard right to work and background checks on all potential employees. This process is designed to verify the accuracy of information provided by candidates and to ensure a safe environment for all employees. Background checks are conducted via a secure third party application and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.