Staff Software Engineer, Platform

• Lead major infrastructure initiatives including database migrations, architecture refactors, and performance optimization at scale
• Define engineering standards and best practices across backend teams
• Mentor engineers on system design, scalability patterns, and production excellence
• Make build vs buy decisions for platform components and balance technical debt paydown with feature velocity
• Collaborate with leadership to shape multi-year platform roadmap
• Dive deep into gnarly technical problems including race conditions, performance bottlenecks, and data consistency issues

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure
• Proven track record architecting systems that scaled through multiple orders of magnitude
• Expert-level proficiency in scalable APIs, databases (PostgreSQL, Redis), and event-driven architectures
• Experience with real-time systems including collaborative editing, WebSockets, CRDTs, or similar conflict resolution
• Strong operational excellence with monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance debugging at scale
• Proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or similar) with deep understanding of tradeoffs
• Product-minded approach with ability to make technical decisions that unlock business value and user experience
• High autonomy, low ego with empathetic, reflective, self-aware, growth mindset that actively promotes psychological safety

• Built platform infrastructure at high-growth startups
• Experience with AI infrastructure or public API design

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