Platform Engineer

The role

You will stand up the deployment foundation including CI/CD, shared development and staging environments, and a demo-ready hosting setup. You will also own product-facing infrastructure such as the API gateway and audit pipeline.

What you will do

• Stand up the deployment foundation including CI/CD, shared development and staging environments, and a demo-ready hosting setup.
• Own product-facing infrastructure, especially the API gateway and audit pipeline.
• Design deployment workflows.
• Build auth middleware and request routing.
• Implement event logging and observability.
• Codify environments with infrastructure as code.
• Define the operational patterns that the rest of the engineering team builds on.

Nice to have

• Built CI/CD pipelines and shared environments that other engineers depended on to ship production systems.
• Deployed and operated containerized applications across staging and production, including secrets, networking, monitoring, and incident response.
• Designed API gateways, reverse proxies, or auth middleware that handled token validation, rate limiting, and request routing between services.
• Built audit or event logging pipelines that made security-relevant or compliance-relevant activity observable and queryable.
• Written production service code in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar systems-oriented language, and worked comfortably in a polyglot environment.
• Established infrastructure patterns from scratch at an early-stage company, including infrastructure as code, deployment runbooks, and environment management.

About the company

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