Staff Platform Engineer

Our client is a series B funded unicorn start-up that is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of their core infrastructure and developer experience. In this role, you’ll operate as a technical authority and multiplier—establishing platform best practices, designing scalable systems, and driving adoption of modern infrastructure solutions across the engineering organization. This is a strategic and hands-on position for someone who thrives at the intersection of architecture, reliability, and developer productivity. You'll partner closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to shape technical direction, streamline development workflows, and ensure their platform is a stable foundation for rapid product innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and evolve foundational platform systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and long-term maintainability

• Define and evangelize engineering standards for infrastructure, observability, and incident response across the organization

• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams to promote best practices in SRE and DevOps

• Drive the roadmap for internal tooling, CI/CD automation, and cloud infrastructure to improve engineering velocity and platform reliability

• Lead efforts to scale a secure, multi-region cloud environment and optimize for performance, cost-efficiency, and availability

• Collaborate with backend, security, and product teams to align platform capabilities with business goals

• Participate in high-severity incident management and root cause analysis, using findings to harden systems and improve processes

What We’re Looking For

• 12+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with a strong background in distributed systems

• Proven ability to design and implement scalable infrastructure and developer tooling in complex environments

• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and Kubernetes in production environments

• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures; experience with GCP is preferred

• Strong grasp of observability, monitoring, and alerting strategies at scale

• Track record of driving initiatives that enhance reliability, security, and developer experience

• Experience leading platform or SRE initiatives in high-growth or startup environments

• Effective communicator with the ability to influence across teams and levels of the organization

• Passion for continuous improvement and mentoring other engineers