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MomentMomentNew York, NY

Platform Engineer

Builds and maintains shared libraries, SDKs, and AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS, MSK) to enable faster, safer development. Architects golden paths, optimizes observability, and mentors engineers with deep Go backend and cloud expertise.

250k – 325k/yr
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

What you'll do

  • Architect "golden paths"

  • Build and maintain core shared libraries, SDKs, and code-generation tools (gRPC, OpenAPI)

  • Abstract away complexity so product teams can ship features faster and safer

  • Design and optimize cloud infrastructure

  • Take ownership of AWS ecosystem (ECS, RDS, MSK, etc.)

  • Design architectures and debug production performance, tune database parameters, automate toil

  • Treat the platform as the product

  • Embed with product teams to understand friction points

  • Champion intuitive and helpful tools

  • Elevate observability

  • Debug distributed system failures

  • Improve alerting strategy and teach troubleshooting

  • Be a mentor and technical leader

  • Drive technical standards, document patterns, write guides, present, mentor

Ideal Candidate Profile

Deep expertise in backend programming

  • Significant experience building high-performance backend services or libraries
  • Write readable, importable code

Cloud fluency

  • Architected and managed production workloads on AWS or other clouds
  • Experience with ECS, RDS, Lambda, data streaming services
  • Understand cost, performance, complexity trade-offs

A DevEx mindset

  • History of building developer tools
  • Write clear, accessible documentation

Compensation

  • Base salary: $250K to $325K
  • Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Team Events, Social Budgets
  • Free lunch and dinner

Skills

GoAWSECSRdsMskgRPCOpenapiKubernetesAWS LambdaPostgres

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