Staff Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Join Cohere as a Staff Software Engineer in Platform Engineering. In this role, you will drive improvements across DevOps, SRE, and developer experience, building a scalable and reliable platform for engineers. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to enable high-quality and high-velocity delivery across the organization. Key responsibilities include leading the development of platform infrastructure, driving deployment and release strategies, improving developer experience, establishing observability and SRE practices, designing testing environments, and providing technical leadership.

• Lead the development of scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform infrastructure, driving improvements across DevOps, SRE, and developer experience.
• Drive deployment and release strategies to improve safety, consistency, and speed, and establish observability and SRE practices to strengthen monitoring, reliability, and incident response.
• Partner cross-functionally and provide technical leadership, mentoring teams on platform and reliability best practices, and enabling high-quality, high-velocity delivery across the organization.
• 9+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, with a focus on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, modern deployment strategies (canary, blue-green), and messaging systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and containerization/orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS)
• Deep understanding of system design, observability, and production operations
• Proven ability to design and build scalable, reliable platform systems supporting production workloads
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and proactively improve platform performance and developer productivity
• Strong backend experience (Java/Spring or similar) and hands-on experience with AWS, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines