Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Poshmark
US California (Redwood City) - Office, US
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior engineers with cloud platform expertise who thrive in cross-functional collaboration and technical leadership roles.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers experienced in scaling high-traffic platforms and transitioning to microservices.
    — “Identify areas of opportunity from a technical perspective for improvements to the platform and lead the areas in moving towards a micro services architecture.”
  • Technical leaders who enjoy mentoring and driving projects from conception to release.
    — “Mentor and lead other team members”
  • Engineers with a background in payments, commerce, or content platforms.
    — “Become familiar with Poshmark’s code and infrastructure in one of the areas of payments, commerce or content area.”

Things to consider

  • Expectation to establish deep platform expertise within 12 months.
    — “Develop full expertise across the cloud platform and data systems”
  • Requires collaboration with security and content integrity teams.
    — “Serve as a partner to platform security and content integrity teams”

How to stand out

  • Highlight specific examples of scaling high-traffic systems in past roles.
    — “5+ years of hands-on experience building products in a high scale environment”
  • Demonstrate experience with trust models or anti-spam systems.
    — “Experience building user trust models and anti-spam product enhancements is a plus”
  • Showcase cross-platform tracking knowledge beyond basic web technologies.
    — “Understanding of web technologies and cross-platform tracking is a plus”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Developing scalable product features
  • Improving platform security and content integrity
  • Leading technical initiatives
Typical background
5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

Microservices ArchitectureCross-functional CollaborationTechnical VettingRubyMongoDBRedisAWSRedshift

Preferred

User Trust ModelsAnti-spam Product EnhancementsWeb TechnologiesCross-platform Tracking

Stack & domain

RubyMongoDBRedisAWSRedshiftMentoringTechnical LeadershipProblem-solvingCloud PlatformData SystemsMicroservices Architecture

About the role

Original posting from Poshmark via Ashby

ABOUT POSHMARK

Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection. Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.

🎯 ABOUT THE ROLE

Lead the development of scalable product features on the Poshmark platform for

content and commerce.

⚙️ WHAT YOU’LL DO

Serve as a partner to platform security and content integrity teams, to execute on any

initiatives to support platform for features related to payments, shipping and content.

Identify areas of opportunity from a technical perspective for improvements to the

platform and lead the areas in moving towards a micro services architecture.

Work cross-functionally with other engineering teams, product managers, data analysts,

data scientists and data engineers to drive projects from conception to release

Mentor and lead other team members

6-Month Accomplishments

Become familiar with Poshmark’s code and infrastructure in one of the areas of

payments, commerce or content area.

Work with product managers to technically vet new features that they have proposed for

feasibility and scoping.

12+ Month Accomplishments

Establish yourself as an expert in one of more areas of Poshmark platform and as a

technical lead on the Platform team.

Develop full expertise across the cloud platform and data systems

Proactively identify areas of opportunity and bring in support from Product Managers

and Data team to make them a reality.

💪 WHAT YOU’LL BRING

5+ years of hands-on experience building products in a high scale environment

Experience mentoring other engineers

Experience building user trust models and anti-spam product enhancements is a plus

Understanding of web technologies and cross-platform tracking is a plus

Technologies We Use

Ruby, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Redshift, and more

Source: Poshmark careers (Ashby)

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