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PartifulPartifulNew York, NY

🛠️ Staff Platform Engineer

Leads architecture and scaling of GCP serverless infrastructure powering a high-traffic social events app. Drives reliability, developer velocity via CI/CD and AI tooling, mentors engineers. Requires 7+ years backend/infra experience with Node.js/TypeScript.

190k – 240k/yr
On-site7+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Architect and evolve cloud infrastructure across GCP's serverless ecosystem (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, etc.) to support rapid growth
  • Design fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems and ensure observability and performance
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve developer velocity, system performance, and scalability
  • Develop and oversee CI/CD, release, and testing infrastructure for frequent deployments
  • Own company-wide reliability and performance metrics (uptime, latency, cost efficiency)
  • Partner with leadership to align infrastructure investments with company strategy
  • Drive organization-wide enablement through AI tooling, workflows, and best practices
  • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels

Requirements

  • 7–12+ years of infrastructure or backend engineering experience driving high-impact initiatives
  • Deep expertise in cloud architecture, system design, distributed systems, reliability engineering, observability
  • Success scaling systems from millions to tens of millions of users
  • Mastery in building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, operational tooling
  • Strong coding ability in Node.js/TypeScript and debugging complex production systems
  • History of accelerating engineering velocity through infrastructure design and automation
  • Fluency with AI tools and development workflows
  • Deep sense of ownership, urgency, accountability; excellent communication skills

Compensation

  • Anticipated annual salary: $190k-$240k, plus generous equity package
  • 401(k) with up to 6% matching
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision insurance
  • Free OneMedical, telehealth, mental health services
  • Commuter benefits, ClassPass/Citibike contributions
  • Unlimited PTO, 14 paid holidays, quarterly stipend, team off-sites

Skills

GCPCloud RunFirestoreRedisNode.jsTypeScriptCI/CDPub/SubCloud FunctionsKubernetesDistributed SystemsObservabilityServerless ArchitectureSystem DesignReliability Engineering

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