Senior Platform Engineer

Standard Template Labs • New York City, NY

3d • $160,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Standard Template Labs is an AI-native startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. Backed by leading investors, we're leveraging AI to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their IT ecosystems. About the Role We are currently looking to add Platform Engineers to our team, with at least 5 years of experience building and scaling large-scale multi-cloud infrastructure. You’ll ensure our platform is reliable, secure, and performant from day one.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years as a Platform, Infrastructure, or DevOps Engineer in SaaS environments serving large enterprise customers.
• Languages/Tools: Strong in Python, Go, or similar; proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Multi-Cloud: Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• DevOps: Hands-on with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Argo, or equivalent).
• Observability: Expert in Datadog (dashboards, APM, logging, alerts, SLOs).
• Mindset: Systems thinker, automation-first, thrives in high-velocity startup environments.

Nice To Haves

• Background in AI/ML infrastructure, or security engineering

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core infrastructure (Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, networking)
• Own deployment pipelines and automation to accelerate developer productivity
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and SRE practices using Datadog to achieve high availability and reliability
• Partner with product engineers to optimize workloads across APIs, data pipelines, and AI inference services
• Ensure scalability, security and resilience for a SaaS platform used by large enterprise customers
• Build with security and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) in mind from the start
• Continuously improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of cloud infrastructure
• Contribute to internal tooling, documentation, and best practices for infrastructure

Benefits

• Build foundational product features for an AI-first enterprise platform
• The opportunity to take ownership of critical systems that scale to millions of users
• A culture that values craftsmanship, autonomy, and technical excellence
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package
• Work from our Flatiron District, Manhattan office, where you’ll be side-by-side with the founding team in a supportive, collaborative setting.
• Our team works on-site five days a week, growing and building together, and the location is easy to reach with plenty of public transportation options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed