Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Platform

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for Platform Engineers who combine strong infrastructure chops with real backend engineering depth. You'll build and operate the systems, services, and agent infrastructure that let product teams move fast and reliably — from data access layers and event-driven pipelines to the agent…

• Design and build agent infrastructure that allows us to safely and reliably speed up workflows from engineering and operation teams
• Design and implement event-driven data flows using event brokers, CDC connectors, schema registries, event routing, and dead letter queues — ensuring events flow reliably and…
• Build the systems that track how data moves through the platform (lineage), enforce who can access what (governance and RBAC), and log what happened (auditing), including PII…
• Set strategy and architecture for build systems, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines, and drive the transition toward robust, automated continuous deployment
• Instrument services with OpenTelemetry, define and monitor SLOs (query latency, pipeline success rates, service reliability), and build alerting that catches issues before they…

What they're looking for

• 5+ years building platform infrastructure, backend services, or data systems in production — you have built and operated pipelines, data access layers, distributed services, or…
• Strong proficiency in Python, and experience designing REST APIs for internal services and developers
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS preferred) — hands-on experience with services like S3, RDS, EKS, EventBridge, and IAM, and comfort working in a…
• Familiarity with data orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster) and transformation frameworks (dbt)
• Understanding of data governance concepts — RBAC, PII handling, audit logging, data lineage

Tech stack

• Python
• AWS
• Terraform
• Airflow
• dbt
• Ray