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 Foundational Infrastructure team provides cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower Compass teams to build and deploy products securely, efficiently, and with minimal operational overhead.
As a Senior Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that impact the wider engineering organization. You bring expert-level industry skills, at scale, to Compass in one or more of the Preferred Qualifications below. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient systems 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. You lead by example—innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of Compass Engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Guide technical strategy and mentor engineers on high-impact projects.
- Design, develop, automate, and optimize scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Maintain and improve platform reliability, scalability, and security.
- Manage and monitor infrastructure components and systems.
- Provide support for infrastructure-related incidents and internal customer needs.
- Partner with customer teams to proactively identify infrastructure needs.
- Document and refine infrastructure design and operational practices.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of software development experience with proficiency in Go, Java, or Python
- Experience building and operating large-scale cloud services in AWS (preferred) or GCP
- Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and microservice architecture.
- Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and execution.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years full-time work experience on an infrastructure platform team providing managed services or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to sizeable (200+ engineers) engineering organizations
- Led design, development, best practices, observability, tuning, scalability, elasticity, and performance/cost optimization of core infrastructure components
- Has a deep understanding of one or more of these domains:
- Kubernetes/Compute Infrastructure
- Cloud Networking
- HAProxy, Istio, Envoy
- DNS, BGP, TGW, VPC Peering, ALB, VPN
- Edge/CDN networking (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly).
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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What We Do
A real estate company with a purpose; we are building the first modern real estate platform, pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless.
Why Work With Us
We are a tech company reinventing the space.
To lead the industry requires the smartest tools built by the brightest minds across engineering, design, and strategy. Through our proprietary platform, Compass is changing how agents and clients navigate the process of finding or selling a home. Join our team today!
