Staff Platform Engineer
Core
High-leverage technical leader setting direction and solving complex reliability problems across the internal Platform Tribe to enable engineers to deliver value.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (Technical Leadership + Hands-on IC)
Builds
Internal platform services, tooling, CI/CD foundations, and developer workflows serving production traffic and internal users.
Domain
Ed-Tech, Cloud Infrastructure, Developer Platform
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Technical leadership, distributed systems design, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, mentorship, data-driven prioritization
Preferred skills
AI-assisted coding, cross-team alignment, RFC writing
Technologies
Python, Django, AWS, CI/CD tools
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership across platform squads on architecture and standards; Lead cross-squad initiatives to improve code-to-production workflows; Drive operability improvements including SLOs and alerting; Solve high-impact reliability and performance problems; Build and operate critical platform services; Mentor senior engineers and tech leads; Participate in on-call and major incident response
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope