Full-Time
Senior Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
Posted on 10/31/2025
Flow
201-500 employees
Develops rental properties fostering community well-being
Compensation Overview
$180k - $275k/yr
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Hybrid
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- Minimum 10 years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a strong point of view on how AI changes the way software gets built. You're already using these tools daily, not just experimenting
- Ability to design, implement and maintain the tools and systems that support service reliability, monitoring, and alerting
- Deep understanding of the principles of ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and efficiency in distributed systems
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Infrastructure as Code): Proficiency with Terraform
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience administering cloud-based infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform preferred)
- Experience troubleshooting production issues related to cloud infrastructure, configuration, monitoring, deployments
- A keen ability to balance elegant design with pragmatic tradeoffs, prioritizing continuous delivery of business value
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new skillsets
- Experience building software in fast-moving startup environments
- Participate in incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues
- Identify and build AI-powered capabilities into Flow's platform, from intelligent automation in building operations to personalized resident experiences
- Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) as part of your daily workflow to accelerate development, improve code quality, and push the boundaries of what a small team can ship
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define clear requirements and translate them into software solutions
- Core contributor to implementing foundational infrastructure, tooling and automation that is scalable, reliable, and secure
- Elevate site reliability engineering best practices while collaborating with back-end developers
- Develop service-level tooling to enhance productionization, data migrations, system hardening, and related initiatives
- Manage and optimize a multi-region environment
- Be available for on-call activities for infrastructure and services
- Experience with incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues
Flow Life focuses on transforming the rental housing market by developing and managing apartment communities designed to foster social connection, well-being, and harmony with nature for urban renters. Its products are rental housing developments that emphasize communal spaces, neighbor interaction, and environmental integration, with experiences and services that support personal growth. The company makes money through rental income from its properties and aims to attract tenants who value community and a premium living experience. Compared with traditional landlords or generic multifamily operators, Flow Life differentiates itself by weaving community-building and nature-focused design into every property, aiming to improve tenant belonging and retention rather than just providing a place to rent. Its overarching goal is to help people live more connected and fulfilling lives by creating vibrant, connected communities within cities.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$450M
Headquarters
Miami, Florida
Founded
2022
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Raised $100M from a16z, valuing Flow at $2.5B.
- Secured Miami development loan with Canada Global.
- Expanded to Saudi Arabia, developing Riyadh complexes in 2024.
What critics are saying
- Neumann's WeWork scandal triggers investor skepticism, collapsing valuation.
- WeWork creditors sue Flow for $600M, freezing financing.
- Miami project defaults on $17M loan from hurricane insurance costs.
What makes Flow unique
- Flow reimagines renting via physical-digital lifestyle services.
- Digital wallet with Bond enables seamless resident finance management.
- Core values—give, grow, love, commit—foster community well-being.
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Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
PTO
Commuter benefits
401(k) Plan
Monthly phone stipend
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
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↑ 5%Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has raised over $100 million in capital for his proptech startup, Flow, in a round that values that company at about $2.5
Adam Neumann, former CEO of WeWork, has raised over $100 million for his new residential real estate company, Flow, in a funding round that values the business at approximately $2.5 billion. Investors include a16z. Neumann is considering the possibility of taking the company public in the future, as mentioned in an interview for the upcoming Bloomberg Originals series, Bullish with Sonali Basak.
Apex Group Ltd. is acquiring FTS Tech, Inc. ("Flow"), a software provider for private markets, to enhance its fund management services. Flow, founded in 2018, adds 15 employees and $17 billion in assets under administration to Apex. The acquisition strengthens Apex's private markets infrastructure, offering streamlined investor onboarding, data management, and compliance. Legal advisors were Goodwin for Flow and Kirkland & Ellis for Apex.
Canada Global, an Israeli real estate firm led by Assaf Tuchmair and Barak Rosen, is teaming up with Flow to develop a mixed-use project on the site, according to The Real Deal.
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