Platform Engineer

The role

You will build internal platforms, tooling, and systems to help engineering teams move faster and reduce operational overhead. This includes building AI-powered platform tooling, an internal developer platform, and automation using LLMs and AI agents.

What you will do

• Build AI-powered platform tooling to identify root causes of recurring operational work and automate tasks.
• Create an internal developer platform including a software catalog, service ownership model, and engineering portal.
• Improve developer experience by building workflows, automation, and self-service infrastructure.
• Leverage LLMs and AI agents to automate platform operations, incident response, documentation, and developer workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify platform gaps and build scalable infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• Experience building platform engineering, developer infrastructure, DevEx, SRE, or internal tooling.
• Experience building with LLMs, AI agents, and agentic workflows to solve real engineering problems.
• Comfortable working across infrastructure, backend systems, and developer tooling.
• Strong systems thinking with a passion for improving engineering productivity through thoughtful tooling and automation.

Nice to have

• Early engineering hire, founder, or have built and shipped meaningful side projects from scratch.
• Resourceful engineers who thrive in high-agency, fast-moving environments.

About the company

Span is a Series A company that provides an AI-native developer intelligence platform. They help engineering organizations turn AI adoption into real effectiveness.