Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Own and develop platform infrastructure strategy, map out needs, make decisions, and own outcomes.
• Decide what to work on and how, make promises, and deliver.
• Conduct principled build vs. buy assessments and advocate for appropriate tools.
• Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records.
• Participate in architectural forums and make open, principled decisions.

Requirements

• Depth in distributed systems, understanding failure modes, consistency/availability tradeoffs, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
• Kubernetes expertise at operator level, including scheduler and control loop under load.
• Strong proficiency in Go for building production systems.
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with architectural decisions in production.
• Experience defining requirements and driving technology choices across engineering organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication for design docs, postmortems, and global teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with storage primitives (relational vs. object stores).
• Work on SaaS/PaaS products across multiple clouds.
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration.

Compensation

• Estimated salary: $215,000 - $250,000 based on leveling and geography, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.