# Staff Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Loti AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/loti-ai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, C++, AWS, REST APIs, Distributed Systems, NoSQL, Relational Databases, API Design, Cloud-Native
**Posted:** 2025-05-12

> 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++.

## Job Description

## 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**.

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