Staff Software Engineer

About the Company

Playground is working to make excellent child care accessible to all. Playground has built best in class software to manage all aspects of running a child care business and is working with thousands of schools across the country.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to enhance deployment pipelines, security measures, and infrastructure scalability
• Optimize Vite configurations to improve build times and reduce bundle sizes
• Ensure robust separation between development, staging, and production environments
• Implement and maintain a centralized queryable logging system
• Improve and maintain real-time service uptime monitoring and alerts
• Maintain and improve internal developer tools including CI/CD automation
• Ensure compliance with security best practices
• Write and maintain clear, accessible documentation

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering focused on frontend systems
• Proficiency in React
• Proficiency with modern deployment tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with Vite, monorepos, and optimizing frontend build tools
• Experience with logging and monitoring solutions such as Sentry, Datadog, or Google Cloud Monitoring
• Deep understanding of security best practices and infrastructure resilience

Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity
• 3 weeks of PTO
• Health, vision, and dental benefits
• $1200/year education stipend
• Free lunch daily
• New MacBook