Staff Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Establish service-quality strategies by defining service-level indicators and error budgets.
• Operate, optimize, and improve large-scale production systems through maintainable code, reliability practices, on-call participation, and incident response.
• Improve customer and internal user experience through performance engineering, observability adoption, and automation.
• Apply technical judgment to ambiguous problems, prototypes, hardening decisions, and tradeoffs.
• Raise the team’s technical bar through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication.
• Use AI-powered development tools across planning, implementation, review, testing, and iteration while maintaining independent judgment.

Requirements

• Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including observability and self-healing techniques.
• Expertise managing production services in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment.
• Familiarity with declarative production-infrastructure management and modern Infrastructure as Code tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform.

Benefits

• Remote-first team with a flexible-first culture.
• Equity stock options.
• 401(k) with a 5% company match and immediate vesting.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous parental leave.
• Life insurance and disability benefits.
• Monthly remote-work stipend.