Staff Platform Engineer, Americas
Staff Platform Engineer builds and scales infrastructure, optimizes compilers and databases, implements deployment tools like canary deploys and feature flags, and ensures reliability with SLOs/SLIs on AWS/Kubernetes. Requires strong coding skills in TypeScript/Node.js and handling diverse infra challenges end-to-end.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Optimize homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tools to help developers.
- Create automated guardrails for security and privacy of customer data.
- Help developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while managing complexity and reducing downtime.
- Work with business and engineering to define SLOs and implement SLIs.
- Ensure communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers.
- Implement infrastructure for event-driven architecture and data warehouse.
Requirements
- Build systems that are mature, reliable, flexible, and approachable.
- Comfortable evaluating risk and comfortable coding (reviewing and submitting code changes).
- Experience building infrastructure at scale with millions of data points, automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
- Handle diverse problems: infrastructure updates, security, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, Typescript traces.
- Strong in SQL; dive into reports and advise on performant data models.
- Async written communication for sharing tooling and best practices.
- Own projects end-to-end with accountability.
Technology Stack
- TypeScript (frontend & backend)
- Node.js
- React
- Apollo GraphQL
- Postgres
- Redis
- Datadog
- Sentry
- AWS
- Kubernetes
Compensation
$190,000 - $275,000 USD
Skills
TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo Graphql, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, Sentry, SQL
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