Software Engineer (Infra)
Conversion
About the role
About Us
Conversion is the agentic marketing automation platform for modern enterprises such as Plaid, ClickHouse, Webflow, and Productboard. Our platform lets growth teams run their entire go-to-market motion in one place, from acquisition through retention, with AI agents doing the work that legacy tools like Marketo, HubSpot, and Pardot can't.
We've raised $28M+ from Abstract Ventures, True Ventures, and HOF Capital. The team is based in San Francisco and includes engineers, designers, and operators from Airbnb, Palantir, Pinterest, IMC, Shopify, LinkedIn, and Microsoft.
About the Role
Hey there! James here 👋, co-founder and CTO at Conversion. Just wanted to share my thoughts on the perfect candidate we're looking to join our engineering team.
First off, I want to stress the technical difficulty and scale of what we're building here at Conversion. The reason marketing automation platforms haven't seen a new player in decades is because building one is hard. Our platform needs to handle terabytes of data syncs per customer with the utmost reliability, coordinate complex workflows that automate mission critical go-to-market processes, handle form submissions that directly generate revenue for customers, and serve high delivering emails to millions of our customer's recipients.
Here's what we're looking for in an infrastructure engineer to join our core team:
Engineer multiplier: Your customers are all other engineers. The goal is to unlock and empower them to ship features faster and more reliably for our customers. The best infra work here is measured in how much leverage you give the rest of the team.
Pragmatic optimizer: Over-optimizing is a real thing. As a startup, our goal is to grow and build an amazing product that delivers value, not to needlessly upgrade our tech stack for the sake of it. Your job is to strike the line between the cost of infrastructure changes and the potential benefits. Everything's a tradeoff and we want to take the worthwhile ones.
Intellectually curious: Conversion engineers are the kind of people who get excited about a weird edge case and end up sending five Slack messages about it before lunch.
This role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You
Have 3+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure, dev tooling, and platform systems at fast-growing companies
Have shipped and operated systems that other engineers depend on, including CI/CD, observability, deploy tooling, or internal platforms
Have a startup mindset and want early ownership in a fast-paced environment
Have experience with our tech stack:
Go for backend services
Kafka, Temporal, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Terraform as foundational technologies
Kubernetes as the compute platform
ArgoCD, Grafana, VictoriaStack for logging and management
GCP for cloud hosting
You Might Be a Great Fit If You
Have built internal developer tools or platforms that meaningfully changed how a team shipped
Believe keeping things in good shape is paramount (security, reliability, organization)
Have worked at a Series A to C startup that scaled quickly
Have a strong track record of side projects, apps, or hackathons. Our engineers have built a live-streaming security system for their parents' new house, a database from scratch, a better Splitwise app, and hosted our Minecraft server, all while at Conversion
Useful links
Website: https://conversion.ai/
Careers: https://conversion.ai/careers
Next Play article on our team: https://nextplayso.substack.com/p/how-a-big-pivot-helped-this-company
Engineering blog: https://conversion.ai/blog
Responsibilities
- Build and operate cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and platform systems.
- Empower engineers to ship features faster and more reliably.
- Improve CI/CD, observability, deployment tooling, and internal platforms.
- Balance infrastructure costs and benefits while maintaining security and reliability.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, or platform systems at fast-growing companies.
- Experience operating systems that other engineers depend on.
- Experience with Go, Kafka, Temporal, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Grafana, VictoriaStack, or GCP.
- Startup mindset and interest in early ownership.
- Strong track record of side projects, apps, or hackathons is a plus.
Skills mentioned
About Conversion
Conversion is the agentic marketing automation platform built for B2B teams that want to move faster than their stack allows. We unify Salesforce and customer data in one flexible model, then put it to work across every campaign, workflow, and decision. Two-way CRM sync, warehouse sync, real-time segmentation, WYSIWYG email editor, and no-code orchestration give teams a clean foundation. AI agents take it further, handling execution, QA, and optimization so MOps teams can focus on strategy instead of busywork. Built for high-growth teams, Conversion helps MOps and Demand Gen go from manually managing campaigns to running an intelligent, connected system across lifecycle, pipeline, and revenue. Trusted by 1,000+ businesses, including Plaid, Productboard, Clickhouse, People Data Labs, Veriforce, and more.