Lead initiatives on API reliability and scalability, mentor engineers, and design distributed systems, focusing on observability and performance improvements.
Work from anywhere in Europe!
Hello. We're Prismic.
At Prismic, we believe the future is all about autonomous websites & hyper-personalised user journeys. Our mission is clear: enable marketers & engineers to shape highly empathic web journeys at scale.
To this end, we are pioneering the use of AI to enhance collaboration between marketers and engineers, equipping them with powerful tools to build those highly personalised user experiences & lead the industry towards the era of autonomous websites.
Role 💫
As Prismic scales, our commitment to technical excellence and innovation grows stronger. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team and lead company-level initiatives that define the reliability, scalability, and observability of our core APIs.
💡 This job description is for the Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team role.
If you’re more interested in marketer-facing products, check out our Senior Software Engineer - Marketing Tools.
If you’re more interested in developer-facing products, see our Senior Software Engineer – Dev Tools.
What you will be doing? 🔧
-Scale Prismic’s public Content API, which already serves millions of requests daily, with an eye on latency, availability, and cost.
-Build customer-facing visibility into usage metrics (API calls, users, bandwidth), empowering teams to understand and optimise their plans.
-Implement API governance by introducing robust rate-limiting and clear separation of public and private APIs, ensuring fairness, stability, and security.
-Empower product teams with AI infrastructure by providing MCP-based creation workflow and seamless tooling communication, accelerating innovation and delivery.
Technologies and tools:
-Typescript (NodeJS)
-AWS
-SST
-Serverless architecture
-PostgreSQL
-LangGraph
-Playwright
-Github Actions
-React
-Cursor / Claude Code
Are you the one? 🧠
Ideally, you:
-Excel at architecting large-scale distributed systems and APIs that serve millions of requests daily with low latency and high reliability.
-Have deep experience with API gateways, rate limiting, quota enforcement, and fair usage controls.
-Think ahead about scaling challenges: multitenancy, regionalisation, data boundaries, compliance, and graceful degradation.
-Care about observability: you design systems with clear metrics, traces, and logs from day one.
-Balance innovation with stability: you can introduce new abstractions or architectures without compromising uptime.
-Influence across squads, aligning product, infra, and teams around clear trade-offs and durable standards.
-Multiply the impact of senior engineers by mentoring, reviewing, and building a culture of strong technical judgment.
-Stay hands-on when needed: whether debugging a complex distributed system, tuning queries, or landing the critical change that unblocks a team.
-Are curious about how AI can augment engineering, from anomaly detection to adaptive scaling, and think critically about its value.
Bonus points:
-Proven track record of leading infrastructure or platform-wide initiatives with measurable improvements in reliability, cost, or performance.
-Experience scaling multi-region, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
If you don’t tick all the boxes, no worries, we still encourage you to apply! At Prismic, we’re committed to embracing diverse profiles. We will understand what you can bring to the table, and fit your skills into our teams.
What are the perks? 🎉
- Firstly, we are hiring across Europe, and this is a remote position.
- Macbook: get top-notch tech to work with
- Home office budget: set up your ideal workspace
- International share-out, an opportunity to discuss current affairs and compare life in your respective countries, and escape from your usual bubble. Sessions are led by a public speaking expert
- Yoga classes: online and onsite, 3x a week
- Yearly company gatherings to take a break from the routine and give you the chance to meet the international teams!
(also, other benefits that may depend on the country you’re based in)
Afraid of missing out if you’re remote? 🌍 Worry not!
- You get the chance to visit us from time to time and spend a few days at the Paris office
- We organize virtual events to stay connected with each other
- We also hold regular global meetings
- We do our best to nurture a relaxed and informal atmosphere, enabling you to feel supported, thrive at your job, and keep learning.
- Ready to join an innovative team and make a significant impact?
Apply now to become a Software Engineer at Prismic and help us shape the future of web development.
We can't wait to see what you'll bring to our team!
Top Skills
AI
APIs
Distributed Systems
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