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Loti AILoti AIUnited States

Staff Platform Engineer

Leads architecture, development, and scaling of high-throughput API-based transaction processing platforms handling massive volumes. Mentors engineers and requires 8+ years experience in distributed systems, cloud platforms like AWS, and languages like Go/Python/C++.

Salary not listed
Remote8+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance, and resilient API-driven platform components and architectures that support our large-scale data processing needs, handling 100,000+ concurrent requests.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, setting standards for best practices in platform engineering, API design, and transaction processing.
  • Oversee the design, implementation, and management of our core APIs and underlying transaction processing systems, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance.
  • Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust and scalable platform solutions and APIs.
  • Continuously optimize platform components, APIs, and transaction processing pipelines for performance, scalability, low latency, and cost-efficiency.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in distributed systems, API design, databases, and transaction management, and drive innovation within the team.
  • Tackle complex challenges related to high-volume transaction processing, data consistency, fault tolerance, and the integration of various system components through APIs.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software or platform engineering with a strong focus on building and operating large-scale, high-throughput systems, including significant experience with API development. At least 3 years in a leadership or senior role.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, concurrency control, data consistency models, and fault tolerance.
  • Strong proficiency in API design principles, RESTful services, and experience with relevant protocols and data formats.
  • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases in transactional contexts.
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native technologies.
  • Advanced knowledge of one or more major programming languages such as Go, C++, or Python.

Skills

GoPythonC++AWSREST APIsDistributed SystemsNoSQLRelational DatabasesAPI DesignCloud-Native

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