Staff Platform Engineer (Fully Remote)

PadSplit • Atlanta, GA

1d • Remote

About The Position

PadSplit is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for our platform infrastructure and backend architecture as we continue to scale our marketplace. This role will drive platform strategy, improve system reliability and developer productivity, and partner across engineering teams to build secure, scalable solutions that support the company's long-term growth. We're looking for a highly experienced engineer who excels at solving complex technical challenges and influencing engineering direction across multiple teams. You bring deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture, while balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You are a collaborative leader who enjoys mentoring others, driving technical excellence, and building systems that create lasting business impact.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale backend platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise building, scaling, and modernizing production Django applications.
• Expert-level experience architecting and operating cloud environments within AWS.
• Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support significant business growth.
• Advanced knowledge of Postgres architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience building observability, monitoring, incident management, and reliability practices.
• Demonstrated success driving engineering decisions and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts and develop other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform infrastructure, reliability, and scalability initiatives.
• Design and review complex system architectures that support company growth and evolving business needs.
• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and technical patterns across multiple teams.
• Improve system observability, incident response processes, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to align technical investments with business priorities.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that elevates engineering capabilities across the organization.
• Build and improve backend services, infrastructure tooling, and shared platform capabilities.
• Identify technical debt, scalability risks, and operational vulnerabilities before they become business constraints.

What This Job Offers

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