Top Platform Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead company-wide strategy for software quality, production reliability, and safe delivery. Build shared platform capabilities for release safety, observability, validation, testability, and developer self-service. Identify systemic risks, improve resilience and failure recovery, define reliability metrics, lead cross-functional technical programs, influence architecture without direct authority, and mentor engineers and technical leaders.

Design, build, and operate distributed platform services and APIs using TypeScript and Go. Improve scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency; develop data-intensive workflows and event-driven pipelines; manage SLIs/SLOs, incident response, CI/CD, and production releases. Partner with product teams on end-to-end delivery, write design documents and tests, and participate in on-call rotations for large-scale systems.

Lead the development of foundational iOS platform systems, shared frameworks, developer tools, architecture standards, and multi-quarter migrations across Cash App and Square. Drive performance, reliability, security, testing, observability, release safety, and AI-assisted development practices. This hands-on individual contributor role influences multiple teams, develops technical leaders, and partners broadly to improve iOS engineering quality, productivity, and product outcomes.

Develop and maintain scalable Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, declarative automation, and REST/SOAP integrations. Build secure platform integrations with Platform Events and Named Credentials, manage source-controlled deployments through SFDX and CI/CD pipelines, enforce Salesforce security and governor-limit best practices, and provide testing, documentation, stakeholder collaboration, and production support.

Build and operate data platform infrastructure supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI systems. Responsibilities include developing Lakehouse and Spark systems, improving performance and reliability, implementing data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, security, and access controls, evaluating query and OLAP technologies, enhancing observability and deployment processes, supporting incident response, collaborating with data teams, contributing to open-source projects, and mentoring engineers.

Build and operate Python and FastAPI platform services powering healthcare workflows, while developing end-to-end frontend features with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. Responsibilities include API design, data modeling, system integrations, reliability, observability, performance improvements, code reviews, mentoring, and project ownership from design through launch. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver secure, maintainable, accessible solutions.

Lead the architecture and evolution of Plenful’s frontend UX platform, including shared components, design system foundations, developer tooling, and reusable infrastructure. Build user experiences with TypeScript and React, integrate APIs using Python and FastAPI, and establish standards for accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability. Collaborate with design, product, and engineering teams, mentor engineers, review technical designs, and drive frontend improvements across multiple teams.

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.

Build and operate Kubernetes-native platform services and distributed orchestration capabilities supporting AI workloads across cloud, on-premises, edge, sovereign, and air-gapped environments. Design production software, data-processing infrastructure, observability, deployment patterns, and operational standards. Establish reference architectures, reliability practices, benchmarks, and recovery procedures while partnering with autonomy, ML, simulation, infrastructure, and product teams. Provide hands-on technical leadership in distributed systems architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and platform reliability.

Build and maintain low-code solutions with Microsoft Power Platform, PowerApps, and Power Automate for federal modernization efforts. Support frontend and backend development, translate ambiguous requirements into working products, troubleshoot complex issues, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders in a remote Agile environment.

Build and maintain Slack Growth Platform infrastructure for feature access, promotions, trials, experimentation, and in-product notifications. Partner with product, design, data science, and business teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities. Lead ambiguous engineering projects from design through launch, operate production systems, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs and leads cloud platform products, automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and AWS account provisioning. Owns infrastructure development from ideation through production monitoring, improves engineering processes, manages security controls and incident response, and ensures maintainability, performance, and observability. Serves as a cloud platform subject matter expert, leads complex initiatives, collaborates across teams, documents systems, and mentors junior engineers.

Designs, configures, operates, and optimizes the enterprise ServiceNow platform. Responsibilities include developing workflows, integrations, automations, Agentic AI capabilities, and self-service tools; troubleshooting complex issues; supporting releases and incidents; conducting security and configuration audits; maintaining knowledge articles and SOPs; managing ticket queues, SLAs, Agile backlogs, and sprint priorities; and presenting platform metrics to IT management. Provides technical leadership, governance, mentoring, and long-term platform strategy.

Develop and scale RESTful backend services and shared platform tooling using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes. Design resilient distributed systems, implement secure coding practices, and maintain automated testing. Collaborate with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams while mentoring engineers and contributing to shared infrastructure. The hybrid role requires three in-office days weekly in Culver City or San Francisco.

Design, develop, and operate a highly scalable ClickHouse-based data platform processing massive transaction and data volumes. Responsibilities include schema and query optimization, replication, sharding, capacity planning, production troubleshooting, cloud migration, resilient client SDK development, operational instrumentation, and platform advocacy. The role also requires Java development, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, distributed systems expertise, and collaboration across engineering teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems and cloud infrastructure supporting Sentry’s products. Own complex technical projects from architecture through production, solve reliability and performance challenges, make architectural decisions, and contribute hands-on code. Collaborate across engineering teams, influence technical direction, establish standards, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices. Focus areas may include cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data infrastructure, reliability, or developer infrastructure.

Designs and operates hybrid on-premises and AWS infrastructure, including large-scale networking, compute, storage, automation, security, firewalls, incident response, and secure cloud connectivity. The role builds infrastructure from scratch using Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Python, and Bash; documents operations for support teams; and supports expansion into additional facilities. Requires substantial infrastructure or security experience, strong network architecture skills, and three onsite days weekly in South San Francisco.

Lead the architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of Cisco’s data platform. Define multi-quarter technical direction for storage, streaming, compute, observability, and performance tooling. Establish standards for schemas, migrations, SLOs, tenancy, retention, and capacity planning; lead major distributed-systems initiatives and production investigations; make technology and cost decisions; and mentor engineers across teams.

Build and operate ngrok’s internal infrastructure platform, including developer tooling, build and deployment systems, CI/CD, automation, reliability, observability, and incident response. Develop scalable distributed systems using Go and cloud technologies, improve developer experience, maintain production uptime, mentor teammates, and contribute to platform architecture and operational maturity.

Lead the architecture, deployment, configuration, and sustainment of an Azure and Kubernetes-based Software Factory for the US Space Force. Manage DevSecOps tools, IaC and CI/CD pipelines, Linux infrastructure, security requirements, monitoring, patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation. Provide technical leadership, coach DevSecOps and application teams, onboard users, establish platform standards, and advance secure software delivery practices. Travel is required up to 25%.

Designs and owns shared test automation frameworks and scalable test execution infrastructure across web, mobile, and backend services. Builds tooling for test environments, test data, parallel execution, flaky-test detection, and infrastructure monitoring. Partners with engineering teams to improve test coverage and quality practices, reduces feedback-loop friction, and documents testing best practices. The role requires strong automation architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, cross-stack testing, and collaborative influence.

Develop and deploy personalized CRM campaigns, lifecycle journeys, automations, and content components in Adobe Journey Optimizer. Translate marketing requirements into scalable technical solutions, implement schemas and data enhancements, build HTML/CSS/Handlebars components, integrate cloud applications through APIs, and manage code through GitHub and CI/CD practices. Collaborate with stakeholders in an agile environment, conduct experiments, analyze campaign KPIs, troubleshoot automation logic, and own journey updates from requirements through production deployment.

Own and evolve Uber’s developer platform infrastructure for code hosting, code review, code search, and SubmitQueue. Design and maintain Go-based tooling, lead projects through production rollout, establish testing and monitoring standards, track engineering KPIs, support incident response, and improve developer experience across a large monorepo. The role also includes mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

Leads technical direction and end-to-end delivery of shared platform services, developer tooling, APIs, design systems, and infrastructure. Partners across product and engineering teams, owns platform reliability and technical health, drives architecture decisions, mentors senior engineers, and improves testing, release, and delivery practices. The role requires hands-on full-stack development, technical leadership beyond one team, on-call participation, and ownership of a platform domain.

Owns the Databricks platform across environments, including administration, architecture, identity and access, Unity Catalog, networking, security, governance, cost controls, automation, and CI/CD. Advises technical and business teams on scalable platform design, evaluates emerging Databricks capabilities, and partners with infrastructure and security teams. The role requires production Databricks expertise, Terraform proficiency, cloud networking knowledge, strong communication, and architectural judgment.