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Staff Platform Engineer

Prefect· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff platform engineer to join Prefect Cloud team and help build and scale the next generation agentic orchestration platform. Experience operating large scale production systems required.

Responsibilities

  • Establish strategies for maintaining a high quality of service, including identifying appropriate service-level indicators and defining suitable error budgets
  • Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, including when to prototype, when to harden, and how to make tradeoffs visible
  • Lead operationally mature work: write maintainable code, build for reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and improve the systems you own over time
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve the user experience, through projects covering performance engineering, adopting observability tools, and improving automation
  • Raise the technical bar for the team through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication
  • Use AI-powered development tools effectively in planning, implementation, review, testing, and iteration while maintaining strong independent judgment

Qualifications

  • Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including observability and self-healing techniques
  • Expertise managing production services in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
  • Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment
  • Familiarity with declarative techniques for managing production infrastructure safely with modern Infrastructure as Code tools (Kubernetes and Terraform)

Benefits

  • Remote-first team with flexible-first culture
  • Equity Stock Options
  • 401(k) with 5% company match, vesting immediately
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Life Insurance and Disability benefits
  • USD 800/month remote work stipend
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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