Senior Platform Engineer, Backend

Quo

16h

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer, Backend at Quo, you will spend a majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex platform components. Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or a project. You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews, and designing and delivering on small/medium size projects end-to-end. This role focuses on backend systems and platform safety, with an emphasis on improving developer workflows and reliability. You will work in close partnership with Platform Infrastructure Engineers to build and evolve a platform that is scalable, reliable, and safe by default for product engineers. Some of the things you’ll do: Design, build, and own backend platform systems and shared capabilities that support engineering teams across Quo. Define and evolve developer workflows and platform tooling, including CI pipelines, shared libraries, and internal tools. Partner closely with Platform Infrastructure Engineers on modern deployment workflows and rollout strategies, evolving approaches as we learn and scale. Own and improve database safety practices, including tooling, standards, and review processes for Postgres and SQL migrations. Work with engineering and customer support teams to surface actionable operational insights and internal tooling that improve incident response and customer experience. Build and improve observability across backend systems using metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing. In any of these areas, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle impactful challenges and help build scalable backend systems that support a growing user base.

Requirements

Strong proficiency in Terraform and comfortable in Python and Bash
Exposure to Typescript (or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java, C#, etc.) and Javascript/Node
Experience with CI/CD systems like ArgoCD and Github Actions
Experience working with GraphQL in federated environments.
Competency in network routing and design.
Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing
You find joy in replacing mundane processes and tasks with automation, AI and applications
You are creative and flexible when selecting tools and solutions
You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication. You hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others to do the same.
You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other. You practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution.
You are curious. You better seek to understand the ‘why’ behind things, so that you can better plan and build the ‘how’. You support your teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge. You’re a lifelong learner.
Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than you found them.
You embrace AI and find ways to use it to improve your work, rather than shying away from it.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and own backend platform systems and shared capabilities that support engineering teams across Quo.
Define and evolve developer workflows and platform tooling, including CI pipelines, shared libraries, and internal tools.
Partner closely with Platform Infrastructure Engineers on modern deployment workflows and rollout strategies, evolving approaches as we learn and scale.
Own and improve database safety practices, including tooling, standards, and review processes for Postgres and SQL migrations.
Work with engineering and customer support teams to surface actionable operational insights and internal tooling that improve incident response and customer experience.
Build and improve observability across backend systems using metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing.