Senior Platform Engineer

Role overview Join a small platform engineering team that helps engineering groups build, scale, and operate services more effectively. You’ll work across product, infrastructure, and security domains to diagnose systemic issues, improve performance and observability, and address scaling risks before they become incidents. The role combines hands-on systems work with technical guidance and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities - Build tools for performance analysis and observability, such as metrics, tracing, profiling, logging, and alerting. - Partner with engineering teams to understand constraints and turn shared needs into platform solutions. - Identify cross-system reliability or scaling problems and drive them through to resolution. - Plan for growth in throughput, latency, or tenant volume, using measurements to guide decisions. - Help teams adopt stronger practices for instrumentation, service-level objectives, and data-informed decisions. - Contribute to design reviews, documentation, and mentoring.

Requirements - At least five years in platform engineering, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering, including substantial distributed-systems work. - Experience designing, building, scaling, and operating reliable production systems. - Working experience with Go, AWS, Postgres, and Kubernetes. - Experience creating performance or observability tools. - A data-driven approach: define useful measures, instrument systems, and explain improvements with evidence. - Clear communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical partners.

Nice to have - Infrastructure as code experience, such as Terraform. - Background in security-sensitive environments, secure enclaves, key management, or regulated infrastructure. - Incident management and post-incident learning experience, open-source contributions, or technical writing.

Benefits and work setup - Remote role for candidates based in the United States or Canada. - Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, HSA/FSA, a 401(k), and paid parental leave. - Also listed: unlimited paid time off, a $3,000 annual learning and conference budget, team offsites, and a lunch stipend.