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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

United States, San Francisco 230000.00 - 310000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 20, 2026
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You'll own critical platform infrastructure supporting 70M+ users and scaling to hundreds of millions. This means architecting the core data model and storage systems powering Gamma's business, building real-time collaborative editing systems, high-volume event pipelines, and public APIs while driving technical strategy for databases, caching layers, distributed systems, and observability. You'll lead major infrastructure initiatives including database migrations, architecture refactors, and performance optimization at massive scale. As a Staff Engineer on the Platform team, you'll define engineering standards and best practices across backend teams while mentoring engineers on system design, scalability patterns, and production excellence. You'll make critical build vs buy decisions, balance technical debt paydown with feature velocity, and collaborate with leadership to shape our multi-year platform roadmap. You'll bring high technical judgment, knowing when to over-engineer vs under-engineer and when perfection matters vs good enough.

Job Responsibility

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Nice to have

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

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