Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Define platform vision and roadmap, design shared service primitives, set observability standards, and mentor senior engineers to improve reliability and developer experience.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Reliability)
Builds
Shared service primitives, observability standards, automated guardrails, and platform team capabilities
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability engineering, web-service scaling
Required skills
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability practices, observability, performance tuning, web-service scaling, Rails/Sidekiq internals, production-grade software development, technical direction, design documentation
Preferred skills
Internal developer platform leadership, engineering standards creation, infrastructure migrations, Ruby, Go
Technologies
Rails, Sidekiq, Go, Cloud platforms
Responsibilities
Define platform vision and roadmap, design shared service primitives, set observability standards and SLOs, convert incident causes into automated guardrails, mentor senior engineers, write influential design documentation
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact
