Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

We are establishing our San Francisco office as a strategic center for high-bandwidth engineering and product innovation. This is a foundational role for a senior engineer who thrives in an in-person, collaborative environment and wants to be "in the room" where our most complex architectural decisions are made.

Responsibilities

• Architecting the Platform: Own the most complex infrastructure work — designing internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment abstractions, and the foundational systems that product teams build on top of.
• Technical Sovereignty: Make architectural decisions around reliability, scalability, and developer experience that hold up across multiple teams and services. You'll write ADRs and lead the modularization of platform primitives and shared infrastructure.
• High-Bandwidth Collaboration: Work in-person (Monday–Thursday) with our SF engineering leadership to design platform capabilities, resolve production incidents, and translate engineering pain points into infrastructure solutions.
• Technical Excellence: Set the standard for platform reliability. You'll lead infrastructure code reviews, define SLOs, and drive improvements to observability, automated testing, and deployment safety.
• AI-Native Workflow: Use Cursor and Claude to automate infrastructure toil and focus on high-leverage platform design. You'll define our AI-first patterns for platform engineering — from AI-assisted runbooks to automated incident triage.

Requirements

• Must Have:
• 6+ years of professional experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture.
• Systems Thinker: Proven track record designing and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure — including service meshes, internal tooling, and developer-facing APIs or abstractions.
• High-Agency: You identify platform gaps before they become incidents. You partner with engineering teams to turn reliability pain into well-scoped platform investments.
• Security Minded: You treat security as a first-class platform concern — deep understanding of secrets management, network policies, IAM models, and supply chain security.
• Quality Obsessed: A history of high-quality infrastructure-as-code, runbooks, and a drive to build self-service systems that reduce toil for the entire engineering org.
• San Francisco Based: Energized by an in-office (Monday-Thursday) collaborative culture.
• Nice to Have:
• AWS Depth: Hands-on experience with ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC design, Parameter Store, and modern IaC tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, CDK).
• Developer Experience Focus: Experience building internal platforms, golden paths, or self-service deployment tooling that measurably improves engineering velocity.
• Regulated Industry Experience: Previous work in compliance-heavy environments such as GovTech, FinTech, or HealthTech (FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA) — ideally with a focus on infrastructure compliance controls.
• Observability & Reliability: Experience owning SLOs/SLAs, building out logging/metrics/tracing stacks (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.), and leading incident response.
• Grow Stage Veteran: Previous experience at a company in the $5M–$30M ARR range where you were one of the senior-most individual contributors.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $170,000 - $230,000
• Offers equity
• 100% benefits coverage for employee
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible PTO
• Home office stipend
• Comprehensive wellness benefits
• Commuter stipend for SF hybrid role