Staff Software Engineer - Platform

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience, including several years running systems at real scale
• You write Go, or have deep experience in another strongly-typed language and will pick it up quickly
• You have architected event streaming systems, not just used them - real production depth in Kafka or Redpanda across partitioning, consumer groups, rebalancing, retention and delivery guarantees, and how each breaks under load
• You have delivered realtime data to clients at scale (WebSockets, SSE or gRPC streaming) and handled fan-out, slow consumers and backpressure in production
• You have driven technical direction across team boundaries without formal authority
• You have built or maintained libraries many teams depend on, and know what backward compatibility and deprecation actually cost
• You have mentored senior engineers and left the teams around you better than you found them
• You have real depth in at least one adjacent area - identity and access, developer tooling and CI, or testing and resilience - and genuine curiosity about the others
• You know Kubernetes beyond the basics: you can write a Helm chart with relative ease, you understand security best practices, and you have job experience or certifications to prove it
• You have worked with relational databases - we use PostgreSQL, but we are not picky as long as the fundamentals are solid
• You have worked at a startup before - you thrive in ambiguous environments, embrace changing priorities, know when to balance technical debt with speed, and proactively tackle whatever needs to get done without relying on pre-existing processes or documentation

Platform team

Owns streaming (Redpanda-based event backbone and user-facing streaming infrastructure), Authentication, Developer Experience and QA, and AI-Native Engineering; owns client-facing and internal services, shared libraries, and manages its own deployments.