Staff Platform Engineer
Build and operate scalable platform services, infrastructure, and developer tooling that enable reliable product delivery. The role requires 7+ years of software engineering experience, JVM expertise, distributed-systems experience, and strong platform, cloud, CI/CD, and observability skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling that power OpenSea's products.
- Own complex technical systems from definition through implementation, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and developer experience.
- Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting across systems.
- Maintain and improve AI skills and tools to make systems more accessible, introspectable, and easy to contribute to.
- Accelerate and expand CI coverage to improve correctness and AI verifiability.
- Partner with product teams to accelerate the development and deployment of critical products.
- Build and ship high-quality, reliable software using AI, modern development tools, and strong engineering judgment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale backend or platform systems.
- Strong fluency in JVM languages such as Kotlin or Java.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, backend services, and modern cloud infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of platform engineering, developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices.
- Ability to own complex, ambiguous technical problems and deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions balancing reliability, scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve engineering quality, efficiency, and team effectiveness.
- Passion for Web3, digital ownership, AI, or other emerging technologies.
Compensation and Benefits
- US base salary: $190,000–$345,000 USD, depending on qualifications and internal level, plus benefits and equity.
- 100% employee dental, vision, and medical coverage; 90% dependent coverage.
- Flexible time off policy.
- 16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave, plus up to 8 additional weeks for the birthing parent.
- Mental-health support through Spring Health, including 8 therapy and 8 coaching sessions per year.
- 11 company holidays.
- Fidelity 401(k) plan.
- Internet/mobile reimbursement.
- Snack delivery reimbursement or monthly snack delivery.
- Company and team retreats.
- Team-member co-working and gathering expense.
- MacBook Pro and work-from-home stipend.
- Weekly $50 Uber Eats credit.
Skills
Kotlin, Java, Jvm, Distributed Systems, Backend Services, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD, Observability, Monitoring, Alerting, Platform Engineering, Developer Tooling, AI Tools, Web3
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