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At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

About the Role

The Engineering Platform organization owns the systems that every engineer at Compass depends on to build, test, deploy, and operate software. Our mission is to reduce friction across the SDLC, improve engineering effectiveness, and build the foundation for AI-enabled software development.

This role is centered on maximizing localized engineering velocity by creating fast feedback loops, optimizing system efficiency, and building reliable workflows across the software development lifecycle. As a Senior Engineer within the Developer Intelligence pillar, you will be an autonomous contributor focused on key components of our platform - working across observability, engineering telemetry, software catalog systems, and AI-assisted workflows to deliver durable, high-quality team capabilities.

Applying AI to the software development lifecycle is a first-class responsibility for this role. You will own and implement systems that use engineering signals to automate manual developer work, improve testing frameworks, assist with production troubleshooting, and create smart workflow orchestrations across your team’s technical domain.

Responsibilities

Deliver and implement technical solutions for Developer Intelligence systems, focusing on engineering telemetry collection, observability instrumentation, and AI-assisted tooling.
Analyze developer workflows and SDLC feedback loops to design testable, maintainable, and efficient software components that resolve architectural deficiencies.
Build and maintain subsystems that reliably collect, correlate, and operationalize data from CI/CD pipelines, source control, testing infrastructure, and developer workflows.
Write high-quality, stable, and performant code to integrate AI tools into daily engineering workflows, including automated code reviews, software validation, and incident triaging.
Work closely with teammates and stakeholders to balance technical requirements, clear project roadblocks, and participate actively in design reviews.
Identify and resolve systemic operational bottlenecks, automate processes, and continuously leave codebases cleaner and easier to maintain.
Actively mentor peers, provide insightful code reviews, and help train newer team members on platform architecture.

Basic Qualifications

BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex technical components autonomously.
Proficiency in Go and professional experience with Python (highly preferred for telemetry pipelines and AI workflows).
Practical experience working with data pipelines, engineering telemetry streams, large-scale observability infrastructures (logs, metrics, traces), or developer metrics frameworks.
Experience embedding AI models, LLM APIs, or automated orchestration tools into software pipelines or system triaging workflows.
Experience developing, deploying, and operating software components on a major cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with core SDLC infrastructure - including exposure to build systems, local development environments, or automated testing frameworks.
A strong track record of building internal tools for other engineers, with an active focus on resolving developer pain points.
Experience automating and simplifying internal development practices to boost team-wide engineering productivity.

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $149,000-$166,000; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.

Perks that You Need to Know About:

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, 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; and pet insurance.

Do your best work, be your authentic self.

At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

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