Senior Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States$180k - $230kfull-timePosted 9mo ago
About the role
Senior software engineer focused on backend services and cloud infrastructure to enable expression measurement, generation, and empathic foundation models; responsible for design, construction, and maintenance of cloud AI infrastructure with autonomy and ownership from design to production.
Responsibilities
- Write clear and concise code to extend functionality on our platform and backend services.
- Architect and implement systems that enable new features and improvements of our API.
- Own the design and evolution of our cloud infrastructure, from deployment pipelines to production services.
- Communicate, collaborate, and grow alongside our engineering team.
- Champion well-tested, highly observable software with a focus on reliability and latency.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in developing backend services.
- Expertise working with compute and storage on a cloud platform (e.g. GCP, AWS).
- Experience in Kotlin/Spring, Typescript/Express, Python/FastAPI, or Rust.
- Deep understanding of modern deployment strategies utilizing cloud technologies (e.g. blue/green, canary deployments, etc).
- Familiarity with service deployment tooling (especially Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo, Docker).
- History building and maintaining highly available SaaS products which ensure scalability, performance, and observability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Skills
Required:Backend developmentCloud platformsProgramming languagesDeployment strategiesKubernetes, Terraform, Argo, DockerSaaS reliability and observabilityCommunication
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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