Senior Platform Engineer

Job Overview

Standard Template Labs is a stealth-mode, AI-native startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. Backed by leading investors, we're leveraging AI, graph-based architecture, and exceptional design to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their technology ecosystems.

What we’re building

Most internal platforms are an afterthought — a pile of Terraform, half-working CI, and tribal knowledge glued together with Slack threads. We’re not doing that. We’re building a graph-first, AI-native system to model how enterprise infrastructure and work actually happens — and a platform that makes it trivial for engineers to build on top of it. This isn’t “DevOps” in the traditional sense. This is building the foundation that everything else runs on.

The role

You’ll be responsible for designing and building the platform that our engineers (and eventually our customers) rely on every day. That means:

• Defining how services are deployed, discovered, and connected
• Creating self-service infrastructure that actually works
• Making it easy to spin up, test, and ship complex systems
• Ensuring everything scales cleanly as we go from 0 → 1 → N

You’re not here to maintain infrastructure. You’re here to turn infrastructure into a product.

What you’ll work on

• Designing and building our internal developer platform from scratch
• Creating tooling and abstractions that remove complexity for engineers
• Defining service architecture, deployment patterns, and environment strategy
• Building CI/CD systems that are fast, reliable, and invisible when working correctly
• Owning observability (logs, metrics, tracing) across the system
• Driving infrastructure as code across everything we build
• Partnering closely with backend engineers to shape how systems are built

What we’re looking for

• Experience building and operating production systems at scale
• Strong background in backend or infrastructure engineering
• Deep familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/GCP), containers, and distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
• Strong opinions on how developer platforms should work
• Ability to take ambiguous problems and turn them into clean systems

Bonus points

• Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
• Exposure to data platforms or graph-based systems
• Experience in early-stage or 0→1 environments

Why this role matters

Most companies treat platform engineering as support. We don’t. This team will define:

• How every system is built
• How every engineer works
• How fast we can ship

If you get this right, everything else gets easier.