Senior Platform Engineer- Hybrid NYC or San Fransisco, CA

Staff Platform Engineer

This company is seeking an experienced Platform Engineers to help scale our cloud infrastructure and enhance the developer experience. As a member of their centralized Platform team, you'll contribute to the design, implementation, and support of foundational tools and systems used across the organization. This role is roughly 80% infrastructure-focused and 20% application development, blending platform building, adoption enablement, and continuous improvement of existing tooling.

The company is located in New York City and San Francisco, CA and will be a hybrid model of 3 days onsite a week at either location.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Design, build, and scale robust cloud infrastructure components, including networking, IAM, Kubernetes, databases, pub/sub systems, storage, and content distribution platforms.
• Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, and release management tools to support a rapidly growing engineering team and increasing code volume.
• Establish and maintain cloud security practices, including continuous integration/deployment scanning, least privilege access, audit logging, and adherence to SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance standards.
• Champion and build scalable testing frameworks, including end-to-end UI automation and high-scale load testing to ensure product reliability and performance.
• Enhance incident response capabilities through improved observability, comprehensive runbooks, and strengthened operational readiness across the organization.
• Create a seamless bridge between local development and production environments, improving development workflows while maintaining strong security and minimizing configuration drift.
• Document and evangelize platform tools and strategies, enabling engineers to adopt cloud-native best practices and improve development velocity and system reliability.
• Represent the company externally by sharing our platform engineering innovations in the broader tech community through conferences, open source contributions, and thought leadership, with a focus on AI-first, cloud-native, and security-first architectures at scale.

Required Skills & Experience:

• DevOps Engineer,? Platform Engineer,? Infra Engineer,? Site Reliability Engineer,? or Production Engineer in a cloud-?first organization at scaled growth startups with fast shipping velocity where candidate had real impact and/or experience at bigger tech/FAANG companies.?
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (1+ years)
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with Terraform
• Application deployment
• CI/CD pipeline work
• Must be willing to do IC work + be comfortable with on-call rotation one week every 6-7 weeks
• Python, Go, or Node.js
• Multi-cloud experience
• FedRAMP/PCI compliance experience
• Startup or growth-stage startup/company experience preferred; combination of this with big tech/FAANG is a big plus.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
This position doesn't provide sponsorship.