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Staff Platform Engineer

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As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will design and develop scalable platforms, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with teams to deliver features, owning the product delivery lifecycle.
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About the role

You'll join our engineering team as a Staff Platform Engineer. You will work closely with our founders on zero-to-one experiences, make foundational technical design decisions, and own a large engineering scope. We're looking for someone who loves delivering great customer experiences and has a passion for building scalable platforms.

What you’ll do
  • Design and develop high-quality product software, drive the architectural decision, and full product delivery life cycle for new platform capabilities.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver product features on time.

  • Work with the team to build data integrations with various tools in the ecosystem.

  • Partner with our founders on the strategy of our customer-facing experiences.

  • Write technical documentation and contribute to internal processes.

  • Have high ownership over technical decisions and direction.

  • Help educate and guide all future engineers in our technology stack.

  • Establish standards and best practices for engineering.

Your background
  • 8+ years of experience building scalable platforms.

  • Good understanding of database internals and experience in schema design.

  • Experience working on the AWS platform.

  • Excitement for integrating the latest LLMs into products.

  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline technologies: Spark, Flink, etc.

  • Proficient with our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Postgres.

  • Pragmatic problem solver with a focus on delivering impact.

  • Demonstrated personal and professional maturity.

  • Experience taking software from ideation to production.

  • Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

  • Startup experience or a desire to build your own company one day.

Top Skills

AWS
Flink
Next.Js
Postgres
React
Spark
Typescript

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