Staff Software Engineer, Platform

About this role

WHO WE ARE

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating cutting-edge technology that fuels Democratic victories and enables progressive causes to thrive.

Our vision is simple: building change through the power of people. Since our founding, we've been building innovative solutions to revolutionize grassroots fundraising – if you've donated to a Democratic campaign or a progressive organization online, you've probably used our platform! We believe in putting power in the hands of small-dollar donors by helping thousands of groups — from local candidates to national movements — mobilize their communities and create a lasting impact. Every member of our team is deeply committed to advancing our shared mission and core values. Together, we are shaping the future of democracy.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to serve as a technical leader and force multiplier on the SRE team. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of deep systems expertise and organizational influence — someone who can own multi-quarter reliability initiatives, drive observability strategy across our platform, and build the practices and culture that make ActBlue's systems resilient at scale.

You'll operate as a senior technical voice within Platform Engineering, collaborating across SRE, application teams, and infrastructure to reduce systemic risk, advance SLO-based reliability, and build an incident response program that the entire engineering org can trust.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Technical Leadership

• Own and drive SRE technical strategy in key domains: observability, incident management, reliability engineering, and platform operations
• Serve as a go-to consultant for infrastructure and reliability concerns across engineering teams
• Lead architecture decisions for monitoring, alerting, and SLO frameworks; contribute to org-wide RFCs
• Provide L2 on-call support for the most complex and urgent incidents; actively build incident respon...