Platforms Engineer

About the role

The Platforms team builds the foundation every other engineer at Storyblocks depends on: the pipelines that ship their code, the tooling that tells them when something breaks, and the environments they develop in. When that foundation is solid, the whole engineering org moves faster and sleeps better. This isn't a back-office infrastructure role. The work you do here shapes the daily experience of every engineer at the company.

We're hiring a Platforms Engineer we're genuinely excited to invest in and grow. Maybe you've been writing application code and kept getting pulled toward the pipelines, the deploys, and the "why is this broken in prod" problems. Maybe you come from a cloud or ops background and want to own systems end to end instead of just closing tickets. Either way, if you're comfortable in AWS, you care about the experience of the engineers around you, and you want more ownership than your current role gives you, this is built for you.

You'll work across CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and local development environments in a fast-moving microservices world where resilience and scalability really matter. We'll start you on well-scoped, real problems and hand you bigger, higher-autonomy projects as fast as you can take them. This is a team that treats developer experience as a product, not an afterthought.

We care a lot about learning here. The platform space moves fast, and the tools you'll master in a year probably include a few that aren't on this page yet. We want someone who stays curious, enjoys picking up new skills, and shares what they learn with the team. We also expect you to use AI to supercharge your work, not to replace your judgment. Our best engineers lean on AI to move faster and go deeper while owning the decisions and the quality of what ships.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and scale AWS infrastructure that supports our microservices platform.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make shipping fast, reliable, and safe.
• Build reusable, templated configuration (Helm charts, CircleCI orbs) so teams get consistent, standardized deployments and pipelines instead of reinventing them.
• Manage infrastructure through code, treating infra changes with the same rigor as application code.
• Improve observability and monitoring so teams can understand and debug their systems in production.
• Partner with product engineering teams, translating platform concepts into practical guidance and cutting friction from their day-to-day work.
• Make and document thoughtful technical trade-offs, and grow into leading complex platform projects end to end.

Requirements

• You're comfortable working in AWS and know your way around its core services.
• You've used observability or monitoring tools (like Datadog) to understand what your systems are doing.
• You're handy with at least one scripting or programming language.
• You've worked with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, or you're eager to.
• You've helped run and scale infrastructure, and you're excited to grow into bigger, higher-traffic systems.
• You've built or maintained CI/CD pipelines.

How You Work

• You care about doing right by the engineers who depend on your work, and you keep developer experience front of mind.
• You can explain a gnarly platform concept to someone who doesn't live in infrastructure all day.
• You think through trade-offs and can walk someone through your reasoning.
• You take ownership of your work, and you're ready to grow into leading bigger, more complex projects.
• You're curious and love to learn. You pick up new tools and skills on your own, and you use AI to sharpen and speed up your work.
• Storyblocks' engineering and company values resonate with you.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes (or other container orchestration), and tools like ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, and Istio.
• Hands-on with CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with Datadog or another APM/observability tool.
• Working knowledge of databases (relational or NoSQL): provisioning, tuning, or operating them.
• Experience designing and deploying microservices.
• General knowledge of security, release engineering, or QA.

Benefits

• Competitive and fair compensation with an annual base salary range of $122,000 - $129,200. Placement within the range is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: knowledge, skills, years and depth of experience, and equity with internal team members.
• 401(k) retirement plan with both Traditional and Roth options and a company match.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents.
• Paid parental leave: up to 12 weeks of paid medical recovery leave plus 4 weeks of paid bonding leave for birthing parents (up to 16 weeks total), and 4 weeks of paid bonding leave for non-birthing parents. Parents welcoming a child through adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement receive up to 12 weeks of paid bonding leave.
• Unlimited vacation, with employees typically taking about three or four weeks each year, plus two company-wide week breaks in July and December.
• Workplace benefits and perks including a financial wellness program, a subscription service for unlimited deliveries from thousands of eligible restaurants with $0 delivery, and a recognition and rewards program.
• Company-sponsored mentorship and growth, including a leadership coach on staff for professional development.
• Fully remote work environment with company and team events.
• Casual work environment.

About Storyblocks

Storyblocks is a different kind of content company delivering a fresh approach to meet the creative needs of a new generation of storytellers. Built on the belief that all stories deserve a chance to be told, Storyblocks provides video, audio, images, and easy-to-use creative tools through its unique subscription model. By offering unlimited downloads and continually adding fresh content, Storyblocks challenges the paradigm that your ambitious vision requires deep pockets. We are committed to empowering storytellers by removing creative barriers and democratizing video creation.

Driven by a set of six company core values, our culture is shaped by a love for data, empowered communication, community, telling authentic stories, an embrace of ownership, and everyone emptying the dishwasher (both literally and figuratively). A remote-first company, Storyblocks has been recognized as one of Washington D.C.'s Top Workplaces by The Washington Post, among the Best Places to Work by the Washington Business Journal, and by the Washingtonian as one of DC’s 50 Great Places to Work.