Staff Platform Engineer
Core
High-leverage technical leader setting direction and solving complex reliability problems across the internal platform serving 100,000+ tutors and 90+ languages.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (Technical Leadership & Hands-on Execution)
Builds
Internal developer platform, CI/CD foundations, runtime infrastructure, and tooling for production traffic.
Domain
Ed-Tech, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
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, AI-assisted coding
Preferred skills
AWS expertise, RFC writing, data-driven prioritization
Technologies
Python, Django, AWS, CI/CD tools
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership across platform squads including architecture decisions and engineering standards; Lead cross-squad initiatives to improve code-to-production workflows; Drive operability improvements via SLO thinking and alerting standards; 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