Top Platform Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead development productivity initiatives by building secure, scalable CI/CD infrastructure, automated delivery pipelines, self-service developer tooling, reproducible builds, and self-healing test environments. Improve local development, release processes, system reliability, and engineering standards across SaaS, mobile, and embedded products. Mentor engineers, guide platform direction, and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization.

Lead the direction and development of developer productivity platforms, automated CI/CD and release pipelines, self-service engineering tools, local development environments, reproducible builds, and self-healing infrastructure. Improve system performance, reliability, testing, and software delivery across SaaS, mobile, and embedded products. Mentor engineers, facilitate collaboration, and promote engineering best practices across the organization.

Configure and support Workday across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Payroll, and Benefits. Partner with product owners and HR stakeholders to translate business needs into solutions, improve processes, test new capabilities, troubleshoot production issues, document implementations, and maintain calculated fields, custom reports, security, and integrations. Research Workday updates and promote automation, technical excellence, and operational efficiency.

Lead development and delivery of Workday solutions across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Payroll and Benefits. Design and build complex Workday integrations and automation using web services (SOAP/REST), WSDL, XML, XSLT and Workday Studio. Provide technical leadership, code reviews, unit testing, and coach a team of integrators/configurators while partnering with product owners and HR stakeholders to optimize processes and platform performance.

Design and build production-grade serverless backend services and APIs for contact center systems. Implement observability, integrations, migration tooling, and AI-enabled workflows to improve routing, agent support, and operational visibility.

Design and build scalable services, APIs, platform capabilities, and product features. Own architecture and technical decisions, improve reliability and engineering practices through testing and operations, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and help guide team direction.

The Staff Platform Engineer will enhance internal development tools and workflows, focusing on developer efficiency, CI/CD automation, monitoring, and mentoring team members while architecting scalable applications.

You will design and implement scalable infrastructure for AI/ML applications, develop data pipelines, optimize system performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Supports integration, qualification, production readiness, and lifecycle maintenance of workstation, server, and embedded computing platforms. Responsibilities include assembling and configuring hardware, executing functional and stress tests, troubleshooting hardware, firmware, drivers, and system issues, evaluating component changes, documenting results, maintaining engineering records, and supporting prototype logistics, inventory, manufacturing transitions, and lab operations.

Build and operate Block’s data platform, including warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable Python services, developer tools, and Terraform infrastructure for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish engineering standards, provide technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, reliability, observability, usability, and data governance.

Build and operate a scalable data platform supporting warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop Python services, Terraform infrastructure, and developer tools for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish security and reliability patterns, set technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

The engineer will build and operate AI/ML infrastructure, managing services on AWS and bare metal, using tools like Kubernetes and Terraform.

Design and build a scalable Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Kubernetes and cloud-native services, improve CI/CD and DX, enforce platform governance and security, lead MLOps/LLM infrastructure, mentor engineers, and align platform roadmap with product goals.

Own the architecture and evolution of Crucible, building deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and platform abstractions. Lead technical roadmap development, solve complex deployment challenges, improve production reliability and security, and eliminate recurring operational issues. Provide hands-on technical leadership through system design, coding, code review, documentation, and engineering standards while improving developer productivity, deployment speed, platform adoption, and customer deployment success.

Develop backend-first full-stack software for Forge’s broker trading and operations platform. Responsibilities include integrating internal and external APIs, building distributed systems, implementing monitoring and high availability, reviewing code, collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering, and supporting production operations. The role uses low-latency technologies, real-time event-driven architectures, caching, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and containerized microservices.

Build developer-experience tooling and frameworks that streamline development, testing, packaging, and production releases. Lead release tooling designed to move code changes to production within 10 minutes, implement quality feedback loops, and improve engineering workflows using qualitative and quantitative feedback. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to enhance developer productivity, engineering practices, and operational patterns while helping scale the team and platform.

Manage the full lifecycle of macOS workstations and iOS/Android mobile devices using JAMF and Microsoft Intune. Responsibilities include device enrollment, configuration, software deployment, patching, application enablement, security and SSO controls, third-level support, incident response, audit and disaster recovery participation, remediation, architecture and project engagement, and maintaining platform standards and documentation.

Automate cloud infrastructure as code, build developer tooling, administer Kubernetes and platform services, improve CI/CD and observability, collaborate with product teams, run on-call rotation and manage incident runbooks to ensure platform reliability and developer productivity.

The Engineering Director for Developer Platform leads the Developer Experience domain to enhance API and integration processes, ensuring high-quality and simplicity for developers globally.

Build and evolve Notion’s Developer Platform, including APIs, MCP tools, integration infrastructure, and internal platform capabilities. Partner with product, design, data science, and research teams to define strategy and deliver reliable, scalable features. Own production software end to end, improve platform performance and robustness, and drive high-leverage technical investments. Help developers and customers create integrations, automations, and connected workflows.

As a Platform Engineer, you will build scalable systems, enhance performance, mentor junior engineers, and lead system design initiatives, focusing on efficient document processing.

Manage the lifecycle, security, and user experience of Faire’s global macOS, Windows, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android endpoint fleet. Build automations, manage patching and OS upgrades, package applications, deploy device trust and EDR practices, and support endpoint security. Collaborate with IT and partner teams, provide escalation support and mentorship, document procedures, and govern AI tools and agents across managed devices.

Technical leader responsible for architecting and evolving Drata's billing and monetization platform: usage ingestion, billable metrics, pricing, entitlements, invoicing, and integrations with Finance/CRM/ERP. Design event-driven, auditable, and scalable systems, ensure operational correctness and reconciliation, lead cross-team initiatives, review architecture, troubleshoot discrepancies, and mentor engineers on financial correctness and distributed systems.

Design, implement, optimize, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms operating at massive scale. Integrate open-source technologies, improve platform reliability, provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support. The role requires expertise managing large Kubernetes clusters, observability tools, Linux environments, public clouds, custom data centers, and AI-enabled workflow improvements.

Support internal developer tooling and platform infrastructure, monitor system health, triage issues, troubleshoot outages, apply fixes, and participate in postmortems, systems analysis, and architecture reviews. The role provides hands-on learning in Linux, command-line troubleshooting, cloud infrastructure, GCP, AWS, OpenTofu, and Kubernetes. This is an in-person position in Redwood City three days per week.