Sr. Engineer, Core

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About This Role

Doppler is hiring a remote Sr. Engineer, Core to help scale its developer-first secrets management platform. Serving over 78,000 startups and enterprises, Doppler provides secure solutions for managing application configurations and secrets across cloud infrastructures and deployment environments. This position suits an engineering-focused professional with deep familiarity with AI tooling who wants to design and support the core APIs, services, and data systems powering the platform. As part of the…

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain core services, data systems, and APIs at the center of the product
• Scale reliability, performance, and underlying infrastructure using industry-leading techniques
• Pioneer reliable agentic patterns including shared context, guardrails, and review practices
• Lead by example in utilizing AI to accelerate work without compromising quality or security
• Own system design and establish architectural standards for the broader team
• Collaborate with colleagues to translate ambiguous product challenges into long-term operational systems
• Apply a security-first perspective across all engineering tasks
• Raise technical standards through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship

Requirements

• At least five years of experience building and operating production software systems
• Strong technical fundamentals with service and API design perspectives
• Extensive data background covering schema design, query performance, and live traffic migrations
• Distributed systems experience handling failure modes, trade-offs, and scalable design
• Track record of running and modifying large-scale production systems without downtime
• End-to-end ownership experience including shipping, log analysis, and production debugging
• Daily fluency and practical engagement with AI and agentic tooling
• Sound human judgment regarding when to utilize AI agents and when to rely on manual solutions

Qualifications

• Passion for security-first engineering practices
• Proficiency in typed programming languages such as Go or TypeScript
• Background with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi
• Experience working with major cloud providers, specifically Google Cloud Platform
• Experience developing multi-tenant systems equipped with isolation guarantees
• Background designing or maintaining public APIs for scaled production environments
• Experience releasing and supporting multiple software versions in tandem
• Interest in mentoring peers and shaping engineering culture

Core Skills

Benefits

• Premium health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision
• Guilt-free unlimited paid time off with a strongly encouraged three-week minimum
• Opportunities for upward mobility
• Learning and development stipend
• Wealth advisor services
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Pregnancy and family leave
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Equal compensation regardless of gender or race

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