Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

We’re looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to define and lead the technical direction of our platform as we scale 10x+ in enterprise customers

This is a hands-on, high-impact role responsible for architecture, reliability, and developer experience across our Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will solve hard technical problems, raise the engineering bar through your work, and be a key technical partner to product engineers across the company

Design and implement scalable solutions within our Kubernetes-based platform for secure enterprise workloads

Define and contribute to reliability initiatives: SLOs, capacity planning, and resilience improvements

Identify and resolve system misconfigurations and architectural risks

Build systems that support 10x customer growth with clear failure modes and mitigation strategies

Own and continuously improve internal platform systems: deployments, environments, and developer tooling

Drive improvements to reliability, observability, and operational workflows

Act as a force multiplier for product engineers by building guardrails (not gates) and self-serve tooling

Bring structure and rigor to complex infrastructure problems

Contribute to internal engineering standards and design principles

Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership to unblock and accelerate delivery- Extensive, production-grade Kubernetes scaling experience

Previously worked in:

(not just operating clusters, but growing them significantly from early-stage to production-critical workloads)

Enjoys being a technical owner with broad company impact

Big tech → then startup

Or startup that successfully scaled infrastructure

Comfortable operating in ambiguity

Strong systems mindset

Deep understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs

You are ambitious. You have fun solving problems that others think are impossible

You are curious. You find joy in learning about AI, technology, and finance

You are collaborative, organized, thoughtful, and kind

You are an owner. You are autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity

You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do, and you’re ecstatic to work at a startup

Familiarity with banking-level security and data governance

Background in financial services or regulated environments

Experience with single-tenant architectures