Senior Platform Engineer- Hybrid NYC or San Fransisco, CA
New York, New York
Hybrid
Full Time
$200k - $265k
Staff Platform Engineer
This company is seeking an experienced Platform Engineers to help scale our cloud infrastructure and enhance the developer experience. As a member of their centralized Platform team, you’ll contribute to the design, implementation, and support of foundational tools and systems used across the organization. This role is roughly 80% infrastructure-focused and 20% application development, blending platform building, adoption enablement, and continuous improvement of existing tooling.
The company is located in New York City and San Francisco, CA and will be a hybrid model of 3 days onsite a week at either location.
What You Will Be Doing:
This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.
This company is seeking an experienced Platform Engineers to help scale our cloud infrastructure and enhance the developer experience. As a member of their centralized Platform team, you’ll contribute to the design, implementation, and support of foundational tools and systems used across the organization. This role is roughly 80% infrastructure-focused and 20% application development, blending platform building, adoption enablement, and continuous improvement of existing tooling.
The company is located in New York City and San Francisco, CA and will be a hybrid model of 3 days onsite a week at either location.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Design, build, and scale robust cloud infrastructure components, including networking, IAM, Kubernetes, databases, pub/sub systems, storage, and content distribution platforms.
- Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, and release management tools to support a rapidly growing engineering team and increasing code volume.
- Establish and maintain cloud security practices, including continuous integration/deployment scanning, least privilege access, audit logging, and adherence to SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance standards.
- Champion and build scalable testing frameworks, including end-to-end UI automation and high-scale load testing to ensure product reliability and performance.
- Enhance incident response capabilities through improved observability, comprehensive runbooks, and strengthened operational readiness across the organization.
- Create a seamless bridge between local development and production environments, improving development workflows while maintaining strong security and minimizing configuration drift.
- Document and evangelize platform tools and strategies, enabling engineers to adopt cloud-native best practices and improve development velocity and system reliability.
- Represent the company externally by sharing our platform engineering innovations in the broader tech community through conferences, open source contributions, and thought leadership, with a focus on AI-first, cloud-native, and security-first architectures at scale.
- DevOps Engineer,? Platform Engineer,? Infra Engineer,? Site Reliability Engineer,? or Production Engineer in a cloud-?first organization at scaled growth startups with fast shipping velocity where candidate had real impact and/or experience at bigger tech/FAANG companies.?
- Hands-on experience with GCP (1+ years)
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience working with Terraform
- Application deployment
- CI/CD pipeline work
- Must be willing to do IC work + be comfortable with on-call rotation one week every 6-7 weeks
- Python, Go, or Node.js
- Multi-cloud experience
- FedRAMP/PCI compliance experience
- Startup or growth-stage startup/company experience preferred; combination of this with big tech/FAANG is a big plus.
This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.