Senior Platform Engineer

Wag•Dallas, TX

8d•$150,000 - $210,000

About The Position

We are looking for a senior platform engineer to drive the core platform, infrastructure, and developer tooling behind our products. This role is both hands-on and strategic: you will design and implement core systems, define the platform roadmap, and work across engineering teams to ensure we have a secure, reliable, and scalable foundation. You'll report directly to the CTO and be trusted to identify problems, set direction, and execute solutions without day-to-day oversight. You'll partner with engineering managers across PHP, Python, and mobile/web platforms, but you will be responsible for the architectural vision and execution across the company.

Requirements

Willingness to roll up your sleeves and move from planning to execution with a small team
Significant backend software development experience
Familiarity with PHP and Python
Strong experience with containerization ( Docker ) and CI/CD pipeline design
Expertise designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure; ideally in AWS
Proficiency with Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools) for managing infrastructure
Strong experience with containerization ( Docker ) and CI/CD pipeline design
Proven ability to design complex and reliable systems with minimal oversight
Experience driving cross-team initiatives and influencing technical direction
Solid understanding of reliability engineering, monitoring, and incident management
Excellent communication skills and ability to work with multiple engineering teams

Responsibilities

Design and implement complex and critical backend systems such as payment processing and authentication systems in the core Wag backend application
Design cross-platform and cross-team system architecture
Design and implement efficient build and deployment pipelines, containerization (Docker, Gitlab CI/CD), and developer tooling to improve productivity
Incorporate AI powered solutions to support platform quality and developer productivity
Define and maintain the platform roadmap , balancing reliability, developer productivity, technical debt, and cost
Design the bug detection and triage tooling and procedures
Contribute infrastructure as code using Terraform
Design and drive incident response procedures including observability and on-call tooling
Serve as a trusted technical owner for key backend systems
Mentor engineers on infrastructure and platform best practices
Ensure Security & Compliance in platform design in partnership with Security Manager
Own the data engineering and analytics platform design
Participate in on-call incident response for key systems