Sr. Platform Software Engineer
Standard Template Labs · New York, NY · 2 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$160k–$250k/yrFull-time
What You’ll Work On
- Build and evolve our internal developer platform (IDP)
- Create self-service tooling that makes spinning up services, environments, and infrastructure effortless
- Improve local development workflows, testing, deployment ergonomics, and developer feedback loops
- Reduce operational friction through automation and platform abstractions
- CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions & Infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Improve: Build times, Deployment reliability & Rollback and recovery systems
- Create deployment workflows that are fast, observable, and boring in production
- Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes
- Design and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, EKS, Docker & Kubernetes
- Improve platform scalability, resilience, and developer onboarding
- Define service architecture and deployment standards across the engineering organization
- Observability & Reliability
- Own observability across the platform using Datadog, Metrics, Logging and Distributed tracing
- Build dashboards, alerts, and operational tooling engineers actually use
- Improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility across services
- Distributed Systems & Platform Services
- Work across core infrastructure systems including: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis & Temporal
- Engineering Enablement
- Partner closely with backend and AI engineers to improve platform usability
- Establish engineering standards and platform best practices
- Make infrastructure feel like a product, not a support function
Bonus Points
- Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
- Experience in high-growth or early-stage startups
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure
- Experience designing multi-service distributed systems