Staff Core Platform Engineer

Overview

In this Staff Platform Architect role, you will shape the core Platform across Core Platform teams, guiding architecture for execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend platforms. You’ll enable 80+ product engineers and the open-source community to build confidently across cloud and self-hosted deployments. You drive durable platform decisions, foster coherence, and mentor teams to scale with resilience. Join a remote-first environment that values technical judgment and impactful, long-horizon engineering.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• Remote-first
• 30 days vacation (Europe) / 20 days (US)
• Health & wellness plans
• 401(k) with match (US)

Responsibilities

• Set architectural direction across Core Platform to ensure cohesive evolution of execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend systems
• Drive architecture across two Core Platform teams and align them to a coherent platform
• Design adaptable backend foundations that support multiple workloads and deployment models
• Collaborate with the FE platform workstream on canvas architecture, real-time comms, plugin contracts, and platform primitives
• Evolve subsystems: durable workflow execution, orchestration, queues, worker management, scheduling, and horizontal scaling
• Shape data and persistence architecture including database scaling, migrations, and deployment abstractions
• Lead technical decisions via clear proposals and RFCs, and define stable interfaces to reduce coupling
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and guidance to raise architecture and maintainability

Key requirements

• Staff-level architectural ownership with track record of leading architecture across multiple systems or teams
• Systems thinking with focus on invariants, correctness, failure modes, and trade-offs
• Configurable systems designed for multiple use cases at scale
• Distributed systems depth including asynchronous processing, idempotency, state machines, queues, consistency, resilience
• Data architecture at scale with emphasis on persistence, performance, isolation, and reliability
• Strong TypeScript experience and backend experience in Node.js
• Cross-team technical leadership with influence through RFCs and design reviews
• Platform enablement mindset focusing on contracts, abstractions, and developer experiences
• Long-horizon engineering mindset for modularization, migrations, and evolving existing systems

• Cross-team collaboration
• Mentorship and coaching
• Clear communication and documentation
• TypeScript
• Node.js backend development
• Distributed systems design

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