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Pave — San Francisco
Who We Are
At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading
Compensation
platform, combining the world's largest real-time
dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning.
decision. Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage.
spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark
The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures. Developer Platform @ Pave The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering.
Our customers are Pave's own engineers. We treat developer experience as a product - the leverage layer that lets every team ship enterprise-grade software fast and reliably. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll help define how Pave builds software.
As a senior engineer, you'll lead initiatives end to end, from CI/CD and observability standards to local development workflows and incident response. You'll also shape how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into Pave's development loop - from scaffolding to review to deploy. You'll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability.
You'll own the metrics for developer velocity and reliability, and be accountable for moving them. What You'll Bring Experience & skills 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience.
data. Strong debugging and systems thinking, with experience scaling production services. Hands on with modern AI tooling - agentic coding, AI-assisted review/testing - with a clear-eyed view of where it does and doesn't help.
Experience with monorepo tooling and build systems - keeping builds fast and CI tractable as the codebase and team grow. How you work High developer empathy - you love improving workflows and helping others move faster. Opinionated and pragmatic, with a genuine passion for engineering best practices and CI/CD craftsmanship: fast feedback loops, reliable pipelines, strong testing, safe progressive delivery.
Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, with a proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects that land cross-team impact. io.
, It's What We do.
package for employees.
for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process): $195,500 - $264,500 Life @ Pave Founded in 2019 with a clear purpose and a team that has never wavered from it, Pave has grown into a global force in
management — giving thousands of companies the tools to take control, build confidence, and earn credibility in every pay decision they make. And we're just getting started.
Benefits
Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. This salary range may include multiple levels.