Sydecar
Senior Platform Engineer
San Francisco Office - Hybrid, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will build and improve the internal developer platform, including CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and release automation. You will design and scale core shared services and strengthen the platform's security posture.
What you will do
- Build and improve the internal developer platform
- Design, operate, and scale core shared services and cloud infrastructure as code
- Advance release automation and test automation
- Strengthen the platform's security posture
- Partner with product teams as an enabler
- Lead projects from concept through deployment
- Mentor engineers
- Participate in architecture reviews
- Help shape the platform roadmap
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, and operations
Required qualifications
- At least 5 years of software or platform engineering experience in modern languages
- Depth in one or more platform areas: CI/CD and developer tooling; cloud infrastructure and reliability (infrastructure-as-code, observability, SLOs, on-call); release engineering and test automation;
- A track record of measurably improving developer velocity, system reliability, or release safety at scale
- Demonstrated experience leveraging agentic / AI-assisted software development workflows
- Strong problem-solver for edge cases and system scaling
- Excellent collaborator and communicator
Nice to have
- TypeScript/Node.js
- Fintech experience (payments, compliance, or regulated environments)
- Experience building internal developer platforms or developer-experience tooling
- Terraform and GCP familiarity
- Observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing)
- Security experience — OWASP-style practices, secrets management, dependency/vulnerability scanning, or AppSec
- Exposure to NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and Playwright / React Testing Library
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
About the company
Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed. The company acts as a partner in venture capital to simplify and standardize the private investing experience.