Staff Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

You will co-own the technical roadmap for Crucible alongside Ciridae’s other senior engineers, building deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and abstractions that power customer applications. Success means expanding Crucible’s capabilities so FDEs can build more and deploy faster.

🏢 About [Company]

Ciridae is a company focused on building platforms that help engineers deploy applications more efficiently.

🎯 The Role

You will help solve the hardest deployment-specific problems, turning solutions for one customer into reusable services or platform patterns that make future deployments faster and better. Your ownership continues into production, where you will instrument the platform, debug live issues, improve reliability and security, and eliminate recurring operational problems at the root. You will provide technical leadership through architecture, system design, code review, documentation, and the engineering standards you establish.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of Crucible.
• Build deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and abstractions that power customer applications.
• Help solve the hardest deployment-specific problems.
• Instrument the platform, debug live issues, improve reliability and security.
• Eliminate recurring operational problems at the root.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture, system design, code review, documentation, and engineering standards.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant ownership of platform infrastructure, deployment systems, or developer tooling.
• Staff-level impact through technical direction, cross-team influence, and delivery of complex systems from design through production.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language, with experience designing and operating distributed, multi-tenant, or cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Kubernetes, Terraform, containers, and CI/CD; and multi-cloud or customer-hosted deployments.
• Strong grounding in APIs, service boundaries, data stores, networking, identity and access management, secrets management, secure software delivery, and production observability.
• A track record of improving developer experience, deployment speed, platform adoption, or reliability; diagnosing live issues; and fixing recurring problems at the root.
• Strong system-design, technical-writing, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and work hands-on from our San Francisco or New York office.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, security, and production reliability.
• Experience improving developer productivity, deployment speed, platform adoption, and operational reliability.
• Experience moving between long-term platform architecture and urgent technical problems.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Must be authorized to work in the United States.