Staff Platform Engineer

Job Overview

Partiful's mission is to cultivate friendships through social events. We believe parties (and other social events) are the most effective way to meet new people and make friends. Our product helps you throw incredible events, starting with memorable party pages that make it easy to plan & communicate with guests — download the app to see how it works! We're building new ways to streamline planning, connect meaningfully in the real world, and make connections between friends-of-friends. Our ultimate vision is to power everything you do in-person with your friends, eliminating the friction of bringing your most memorable experiences to life.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve our cloud infrastructure across GCP’s serverless ecosystem (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, etc.) to support rapid growth in users and product use cases


• Design fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems and ensure observability and performance are first-class citizens


• Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve developer velocity, system performance, and scalability


• Develop and oversee the CI/CD, release, and testing infrastructure that supports dozens of deployments per day and weekly app releases with confidence


• Own company-wide reliability and performance metrics (uptime, latency, cost efficiency)


• Partner with leadership to align infrastructure investments with company and product strategy


• Drive organization-wide enablement through AI — establishing tooling, workflows, and best practices that make engineers across the company dramatically faster and more effective


• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels — raising the technical bar across the organization


• Champion a culture of speed, reliability, and operational excellence

Required Qualifications

• 7–12+ years of infrastructure or backend engineering experience with a track record of driving high-impact, technically complex initiatives


• Deep expertise in cloud architecture systems, with a strong command of system design, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and observability best practices


• Demonstrated success scaling systems from millions to tens of millions of users


• Mastery in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, and operational tooling


• Strong coding ability in Node.js/TypeScript and deep comfort debugging complex production systems


• History of accelerating engineering velocity through thoughtful infrastructure design and automation


• Fluency with AI tools and development workflows — you actively use AI to move faster and enable others to do the same


• Deep sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability — you thrive in a fast, high-intensity environment


• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-team architecture and technical culture

About Partiful

Partiful was named Google’s Best App of 2024, a Finalist for Apple’s App Store Awards, and Apple’s App of the Day (awarded 4x). In 2025, we were named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and named to Inc. Magazine's Best in Business List. Our company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, and advised by the founders of some of the most successful consumer social products ever made.

Benefits

• 401(k) with up to 6% matching


• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents (FSAs and HSA plans available)


• Free OneMedical membership, telehealth, and virtual mental health services


• Commuter benefits & contributions towards ClassPass and Citibike memberships


• Take what you need paid time off


• 14 paid holidays throughout the calendar year


• Quarterly stipend to plan your own party and dogfood the product


• Semiannual team off-sites


• Get invited to exclusive parties 🎉