Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

📍 San Francisco, CA or Vancouver, BC, Canada – Hybrid / Onsite Preferred (3 days a week) 🕒 Full-time About the Role: We’re looking for a hands-on experienced Platform Engineer to shape and scale the foundation of our AI-driven enterprise platform. You’ll be the technical backbone of our infrastructure efforts — working across backend systems, Kubernetes-based deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and secure customer rollout processes including on-prem environments. This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, backend development, systems design, and DevOps — and wants to make a real impact in a fast-moving, high-ownership startup environment. What You’ll Do: Build Backend Services: Design, implement, and operate microservices and APIs (REST/GraphQL) primarily in Python ; prototype/greenfield services in Go as needed. Own and evolve our platform’s core infrastructure , spanning stateful systems (Postgres, Redis, object storage) and stateless microservices (APIs, async workers) Design and operate Kubernetes infrastructure , including Helm-based deployments, autoscaling, resource tuning, and service mesh integrations Implement Infrastructure as Code usin...