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🛠️ Staff Platform Engineer (Full-Stack)

Partiful· Engineering
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New York, NY$200k - $250kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Platform Engineer to lead and scale Partiful's systems, driving reliability, scalability, and velocity of the platform across React/React Native frontend and Node.js/Typescript backend on GCP with serverless architecture.

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

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

Skills

Required:Node.jsTypeScriptCloud architecture (GCP)CI/CD

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
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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