Staff Software Engineer, Platform

What You'll Do

• Live by and champion our values: #empathy, #execution, #humility, #curiosity.
• Lead critical infrastructure projects and drive architectural decisions that will span across multiple teams ranging from problem definition/scoping to execution and see it through to successful and smooth delivery of impactful solutions.
• Establish platform engineering standards and partner with product teams on reliability, performance, and architecture.
• Be hands on in various parts of the system like AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling and application layer.
• Communicate platform priorities and trade-offs to engineering leadership and help them with building a prioritized roadmap.
• Mentor other engineers who need technical guidance.

What You'll Bring

• 9+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles.
• Experience managing large backlogs and making prioritization trade-offs.
• Proven ability to stabilize unreliable systems (CI, infrastructure, observability).
• Mentorship experience—you'll guide engineers who need technical leadership.
• Strong communication skills to advocate for platform needs and explain trade-offs.
• Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy—you'll define what "good" looks like.
• Ability to balance tech debt paydown with new feature delivery.

Success Looks Like

• Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis, or similar, at scale.
• Strong debugging skills across application, infrastructure, and networking.
• Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus.
• CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Experience working AWS Services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform strongly preferred).
• Kubernetes (deployments, scaling, troubleshooting, security).
• Experience using a distributed messaging system.
• Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).

What We Offer

• Competitive equity with a 10-year exercise window.
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees, 85% for dependents).
• Unlimited PTO (with a 3-week minimum).
• 401(k) plan.
• Regular team offsites and meetups.
• Hybrid work: 2+ days/week in our SF Office.