Software Engineer, Platform

Job Overview

We’re hiring Platform Engineers to build and operate the infrastructure that powers compliance at scale. You’ll own reliability, performance, and scalability across our core systems. You will design Postgres schemas, optimize queries, build high-throughput services, orchestrate long-running workflows (Temporal), and maintain our commitment to 99.9%+ uptime for customers processing thousands of cases per day.

You’ll write production backend code, design distributed systems, and own the infrastructure that empowers our product teams to ship fast without breaking production.

Key Responsibilities

• Build APIs and services that handle thousands of concurrent requests.


• Architect ingestion → assessment → delivery pipelines for our cases.


• Implement Temporal workflows for long-running, stateful processes.


• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries for our compliance workflows.


• Own CI/CD, deployments, and infrastructure-as-code, and drive observability through logging, tracing, and metrics.


• Debug slow queries, memory leaks, and race conditions in our production environment.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years (Engineer) / 6+ years (Sr. Engineer) / 8+ years (Staff Engineer) of backend or infrastructure experience.


• Strong systems fundamentals, including distributed systems, databases, APIs, and concurrency.


• Proven production experience, including debugging live systems, incident response, and on-call rotations.


• PostgreSQL expertise, including query optimization, indexing, schema design, and migrations.


• An ownership mindset: you close the loop, write postmortems, and prevent the recurrence of issues.

Technical Skills

Languages: TypeScript/Node.js (primary), SQL (advanced), Python (nice to have).

Databases: PostgreSQL/Supabase, RLS, query planning.

Workflow: Temporal (preferred) or Airflow/Prefect/Cadence.

Cloud/Infra: AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions).

Monitoring: Datadog (or Grafana/Prometheus/New Relic/Sentry).

About Bretton AI

Bretton AI is the leading AI agent platform for financial services. Companies like Robinhood, Mercury and Gusto trust us to automate mission critical work, starting with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism investigations. We’ve raised over $95M from Greylock, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures and other top tier investors. We’re based in downtown San Francisco and our team comes from world-class organizations like SpaceX, Google, Netflix, Stripe, Plaid and more.

Benefits

$168k - $213k base salary + meaningful equity

Comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, commuter benefits

15 days PTO + holidays, unlimited sick days

Flexible leave options

Working late? We cover DoorDash and Uber home