Platform Engineer

October 20, 2026

Remote

Senior

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Includes on-call duty

Description

Global remote platform engineering role focused on designing, building and maintaining core backend services at large scale. The work centers on distributed systems, TypeScript and Go, with ownership of reliability, observability and release processes. The company hires globally with no offices and operates asynchronously.

Responsibilities

Design and implement distributed services and APIs that power the platform
Lead projects that improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across existing systems
Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines
Own service SLIs/SLOs and collaborate on incident response and post-incident reviews
Improve system observability with metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling
Contribute to CI/CD and release processes to ship safely and quickly
Partner with product teams to deliver features end-to-end, from design docs to production
Write clear design documents, RFCs, and high-quality tests

Requirements

Designing and operating distributed systems with consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus and back pressure
Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Go with 5+ years building production services in one or both languages
Comfort with cloud infrastructure with AWS preferred and container orchestration
Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, API design and data modelling
Knowledge of networking fundamentals and security best practices
Experience with Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi preferred, Terraform or CDK also fine
Comfort participating in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems
Experience with Postgres internals, logical replication or CDC pipelines
Experience with service meshes, workload identity or zero-trust networking
Background in performance engineering and capacity planning
Open source contributions in systems, databases or runtime tooling

Conditions

Fully remote work with global hiring and a WeWork membership or co-working allowance
ESOP equity ownership for every team member
Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones and work environment setup
Health insurance covered 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
Annual company off-sites in a new city for a week
Flexible asynchronous work with trust in managing your own time
Annual education allowance for courses, books and conferences