Platform Engineer

Versant • New York, NY

22h • $110,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Versant Media’s Data Platforms team is the central data store across the enterprise. We unify disparate systems into a secure, well-governed, real-time data environment that powers downstream products, analytics, and content delivery experiences. We are seeking a Platform Engineer to contribute to the development of backend services and core platform components that power our data platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building scalable systems, improving developer workflows, and growing into broader platform ownership over time. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone early in their career who is building a strong foundation in software engineering while developing expertise in platform systems, infrastructure, and operational tooling.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript (or similar backend technologies)
• Understanding of: object-oriented design, basic design patterns, API and service development
• Experience building or contributing to backend services or distributed systems
• Familiarity with testing practices (unit, integration, mocking)
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and development workflows
• Strong willingness to learn, ask questions, and take ownership of work
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-moving environment

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to data systems (pipelines, warehouses, or lakehouse architectures)
• Familiarity with observability concepts (logs, metrics, tracing)
• Experience working in cloud environments

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript
• Support development of modular, service-oriented architecture for data ingestion, transformation, and access
• Help ensure platform services integrate with: data contracts and schema validation, metadata, lineage, and governance systems
• Write clean, testable code with emphasis on unit and integration testing
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Participate in design and code reviews, learning and applying engineering best practices
• Debug and troubleshoot issues in development and production environments
• Collaborate with engineers across platform, data, and governance teams

Benefits

• health insurance
• retirement plans
• paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees