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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.

190k – 275kSan Francisco, CANew York, NYAtlanta, GA+8 moreDevOps / SRERemote

About the role

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

TypeScriptNode.jsReactApollo GraphqlPostgresRedisKubernetesAWSDatadogSentrySQL

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