engineering
Posted Apr 29Staff Software Engineer
at Playground
New York City, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- - Ensure robust separation between development, staging, and production environments while maintaining the ability to debug critical issues.
- - Implement and maintain a centralized queryable logging system that allows engineers and support teams to efficiently debug and analyze system behavior.
- - Ensure compliance with security best practices across deployment and infrastructure processes.
Requirements
- experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering focused on frontend systems. - Must be proficient in React - Proficiency with modern deployment tools and CI/CD pipelines. - Strong
- experience with Vite, monorepos, and optimizing frontend build tools. -
- Experience working with logging and monitoring solutions such as Sentry, Datadog, or Google Cloud Monitoring. - Deep understanding of security best practices and infrastructure resilience. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Experience
- REQUIREMENTS - 5+ years of
Benefits
- You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of child care technology by improving system uptime, deployment efficiency, security, and developer tooling.
- WHY JOIN PLAYGROUND - Competitive salary + equity - 3 weeks of PTO - Health, vision, and dental
- benefits - $1200/year education stipend - Free lunch daily - New MacBook - Collaborative and supportive work culture with a high level of autonomy and room for growth - Help accelerate our mission to make excellent child care accessible to all! How to Apply If you're excited to join a mission-driven, early-stage company where ownership, craftsmanship, and empathy are at the center of what we do, apply now.
Contact
- Check out our journey https://www.tryplayground.com/about to learn more about our co-founders Dan, Josh, and Sasha.
Additional details
- COMPANY OVERVIEW Playground is working to make excellent child care accessible to all.
- Playground has built best in class software to manage all aspects of running a child care business.
- Playground has raised millions of dollars in funding, has several Statewide contracts, and is working with thousands of schools across the country.
- Our founders were recently recognized by Forbes as 30 under 30, and our work has been recognized across the country.
- Playground is at an inflection point, growing at a quick pace, and we are looking to expand our engineering team as quickly as possible.
- Playground is compromised of a team of owners who are not afraid to dive into large, complex projects.
- JOB DESCRIPTION As part of Playground's engineering team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining critical infrastructure that ensures our platform remains scalable, secure, and high-performing.
- We're looking for self-starters who thrive in taking projects from concept to reality, often working independently with high ownership.
- RESPONSIBILITIES - Collaborate with a cross-functional team to enhance deployment pipelines, security measures, and infrastructure scalability.
- - Optimize Vite configurations to improve build times, reduce bundle sizes, and enhance the developer experience.