Staff Platform Engineer

Ciridae • San Francisco, CA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The architecture and evolution of Crucible. You will co-own its technical roadmap alongside Ciridae’s other senior engineers and build the deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and abstractions that power customer applications. Success means expanding Crucible’s capabilities so FDEs can build more and deploy faster. You will also help solve the hardest deployment-specific problems. What begins as a solution for one customer should become an extensible capability, reusable service, or platform pattern that makes future deployments faster and better. Your ownership continues into production: instrumenting the platform, debugging live issues, improving reliability and security, and eliminating recurring operational problems at the root. You will provide technical leadership through architecture, system design, code review, documentation, and the engineering standards you establish.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant ownership of platform infrastructure, deployment systems, or developer tooling.
• Staff-level impact through technical direction, cross-team influence, and delivery of complex systems from design through production.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language.
• Experience designing and operating distributed, multi-tenant, or cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, containers, and CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with multi-cloud or customer-hosted deployments.
• Strong grounding in APIs, service boundaries, data stores, networking, identity and access management, secrets management, secure software delivery, and production observability.
• A track record of improving developer experience, deployment speed, platform adoption, or reliability.
• A track record of diagnosing live issues and fixing recurring problems at the root.
• Strong system-design skills.
• Strong technical-writing skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams.
• Ability to work hands-on from our San Francisco or New York office.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building production platforms, deployment systems, and developer tooling that engineers rely on.
• Understanding of how to design extensible systems that work across varied cloud and customer-hosted environments without creating one-off architecture for every project.
• Comfort working across Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, security, and production reliability.
• Track record of improving developer productivity, deployment speed, platform adoption, and operational reliability.
• Ability to move between long-term platform architecture and urgent technical problems.
• Deep involvement in implementation, bringing a clear technical point of view grounded in experience and a high bar for code quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of Crucible.
• Co-own the technical roadmap alongside other senior engineers.
• Build deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and abstractions that power customer applications.
• Expand Crucible’s capabilities to enable faster and more efficient customer application development and deployment.
• Solve complex deployment-specific problems, turning solutions into extensible capabilities, reusable services, or platform patterns.
• Manage platform ownership in production, including instrumentation, debugging live issues, improving reliability and security, and eliminating recurring operational problems.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture, system design, code review, documentation, and establishing engineering standards.

What This Job Offers

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