Senior Platform Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Developer Productivity & Internal Platform

• Build and evolve the internal developer platform (IDP).
• Create self-service tooling for provisioning services, environments, and infrastructure.
• Improve local development workflows, testing, deployment ergonomics, and developer feedback loops.
• Reduce operational friction through automation and platform abstractions.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Improve build times, deployment reliability, rollback, and recovery systems.
• Create deployment workflows that are fast, observable, and reliable in production.

Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes

• Design and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Improve platform scalability, resilience, and developer onboarding.
• Define service architecture and deployment standards across the engineering organization.

Observability & Reliability

• Own platform observability using Datadog, metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and operational tooling for engineers.
• Improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility across services.

Distributed Systems & Platform Services

• Work across core infrastructure systems including PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and Temporal.

Engineering Enablement

• Partner with backend and AI engineers to improve platform usability.
• Establish engineering standards and platform best practices.
• Treat infrastructure as a product rather than a support function.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• Experience in high-growth or early-stage startups.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure.
• Experience designing multi-service distributed systems.

Compensation

• Estimated yearly salary: $160,000–$250,000 USD.