Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Opportunity Overview: We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering to help shape the future of how we build, deploy, and operate software at Cohere. In this role, you’ll drive improvements across DevOps, SRE, and developer experience - building a platform that is scalable, reliable, and intuitive for engineers to use. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to enable high-quality, high-velocity delivery across the organization, with a direct impact on how our teams ship software at scale. What you’ll do: Lead development of scalable, reliable, high-performance platform infrastructure Drive deployment and release strategies to improve safety, consistency, and speed Improve developer experience through CI/CD enhancements and faster feedback cycles Establish observability and SRE practices to strengthen monitoring, reliability, and incident response Design environments that support consistent testing, validation, and safe releases Partner cross-functionally and provide technical leadership, mentoring teams on platform and reliability best practices What you’ll need: 9+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, with a focus on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE Proven ability to design and build scalable, reliable platform systems supporting production workloads Strong backend experience (Java/Spring or similar)