🛠️ Platform Engineer
155k – 210kNew York, NYDevOps / SREHybrid3+ YOE
Summary
Builds and maintains scalable infrastructure on GCP, including serverless systems, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools for a high-growth social events app. Requires 3+ years in infrastructure/backend engineering with serverless experience and strong ownership mindset.
About the role
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure across GCP's ecosystem (Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Tasks, Redis, Pub/Sub, etc.)
- Collaborate with other engineers to design performant APIs, databases, and backend systems
- Improve reliability and observability across our stack (monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing)
- Evolve our CI/CD pipelines and developer environments to maximize speed and confidence in shipping
- Empower others (and yourself) to use AI tools effectively and safely across the development process
- Own system performance, uptime, and scalability as usage grows
- Implement security best practices, from secrets management to access control
- Respond to and help prevent production incidents
What you'll bring
- 3–11 years of infrastructure or backend engineering experience in a fast-paced or high-growth environment
- Experience designing and managing serverless or event-driven systems at scale
- Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and best practices
- Experience with observability systems (such as Sentry, GCP Cloud Logging & Metrics Explorer)
- Solid grasp of networking, security, and performance tuning fundamentals
- Comfort working in Typescript/Node.js environments
- A builder's mindset — you enjoy automating, optimizing, and empowering teams through great tooling
- A habit of leveraging AI tools to move faster, debug smarter, and prototype more effectively
- Deep sense of ownership and dedication to delivering ambitious outcomes on fast timelines
What we offer
- 401(k) with up to 6% matching
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents (FSAs and HSA plans available)
- Free OneMedical membership, telehealth, and virtual mental health services
- Commuter benefits & contributions towards ClassPass and Citibike memberships
- Take what you need paid time off
- 14 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Parental leave
- Quarterly stipend to plan your own party and dogfood the product
- Semiannual team off-sites
Skills
GCPCloud FunctionsFirestoreCloud TasksRedisPub/SubCI/CDSentryCloud LoggingNode.jsTypeScriptserverlessobservabilityKubernetes
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