Staff Platform Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Own infra topology, scaling and blast-radius boundaries, the build/deploy graph, database ownership boundaries, and cost ceilings
• - Build the validation gates, idempotency checks, drift detectors, and runbooks that keep both humans and agents from doing damage
• - Diagnose the novel failures — consumer lag, DLQs, materialized-view chains, consent ordering
• - Own the 500K events/sec target: load testing, Karpenter/HPA tuning, Database sizing, SLOs and alerting
• - Own IAM/IRSA, secret rotation, the auth chain, and what the agent/MCP surface is allowed to do
• - Keep skills, runbooks, and agent context in sync with reality
• - Lead incidents and capture every fix as a new runbook plus regression test

Required Skills

• - 5+ years operating production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS) at scale
• - Strong Terraform and GitOps/Kustomize practice, with a bias for making operations idempotent, automated, and self-verifying
• - Real incident-response experience on distributed-systems failures — databases, streaming, consumer lag, data integrity
• - Knowledge of how Postgres, a columnar store, and a log/streaming bus behave under load
• - Comfort working alongside AI agents — writing the guardrails, runbooks, and checks that let automation operate safely
• - Instincts to encode checks rather than relying on memory

Benefits

• - Salary range of USD $190,000 to $230,000 base plus significant equity
• - High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
• - Work from home (or wherever)
• - Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
• - Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• - Flexible paid time off