Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Valence has built the only first-to-market AI native coaching platform for enterprise, offering personalized, expert, and human-like guidance and support to any leader or employee. We’re not just talking about the future of work — we’re building it now, with the most innovative Fortune 500 companies across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and technology.

Learn more about our work with Microsoft: Valence Brings AI Coaching More Deeply Into the Flow of Work with Microsoft 365

Our focus is on the problems that actually decide whether AI changes how organizations operate — the ones with no playbook, no obvious answers, and no guarantee of success. If you want to be part of the small group that defines how AI transforms the future at a global scale, this is your chance.

And this isn’t for everyone. We’re not looking for people who want predictability or incremental progress. We only want those who are restless at the edge of what’s possible, who get bored when things feel “done,” and who are driven to redefine what AI can mean for leaders, companies, and the world. Because at Valence, the work worth doing is the kind that redefines work itself.

The Role

As a Platform Engineer at Valence, you will build and operate the secure, reliable, and scalable foundation that lets every product and AI team ship Nadia innovations faster and with lower risk. Platform Engineering is Valence's force multiplier: we own the shared control planes for trust and safety, global access and routing, LLM governance, deployment automation, workload isolation, observability and SLOs, and AI-native engineering execution.

Your mandate is simple: increase shipping velocity and customer trust at the same time, by making the safe path the default path. You'll build the paved roads every team uses in production, and enforce minimum production standards through templates, CI/CD gates, scorecards, and time-bound exceptions, so every service is observable, reversible, and...