Mid/Senior Platform Engineer

Job Overview

We are looking for a passionate Platform Engineer with a strong focus on building technical platforms and shared infrastructure used across multiple engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain shared libraries and SDKs for areas such as authentication, logging, configuration, API clients, and error handling.


• Develop and support shared backend services and internal APIs.


• Improve developer experience through service templates, scaffolding, and local development tooling.


• Design and maintain CI/CD workflows with a focus on reliability, security, and speed.


• Build and maintain observability tooling including metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.


• Collaborate with product engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues, support integrations, and review technical designs.


• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building backend services using TypeScript and Node.js, ideally with NestJS in production environments.


• Strong software engineering fundamentals including understanding of CPU, memory, I/O, concurrency, and performance bottlenecks.


• Experience using AI-assisted developer tools effectively while maintaining strong engineering judgment.


• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL including schema design, migrations, and query analysis.


• Familiarity with AWS services such as DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, and Lambda.


• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, including troubleshooting and release workflows.


• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar.


• Ability to learn new tools, technologies, and domains quickly.


• Commitment to writing maintainable, reusable, and high-quality code.

Senior-Level Expectations

• Additional backend/platform engineering experience with ownership of systems in production environments.


• Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning including indexing strategies, query plans, and migration management.


• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD strategies including release flows, artifact promotion, and security considerations.


• Experience building observability practices including SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, and alerting systems.


• Ability to lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, and influence engineering standards across teams.

Soft Skills

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.


• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.


• Ability to work effectively with globally distributed teams.


• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.


• Strong problem-solving abilities and customer-focused thinking.


• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with multiple stakeholders and time zones.