Staff Platform Engineer

Gas City

47d • $180,000 - $240,000 • Remote

About The Position

We build the open-source stack teams use to run coding agents at scale. Three repos under github.com/gastownhall: beads, the work graph that agents and humans share (~26k stars); gastown (~17k); and gascity, agent orchestration. We're taking Beads and Gas City to the cloud. The commercial side is Gasworks: the hosted control plane teams use to run agent fleets without babysitting them. If you know our open-source stack, imagine that as the agentic platform for a team or an organization.
Over the last six months we’ve talked to customers, held workshops, and started design partnerships. Now we're scaling the team and the product toward revenue. You are one of our first engineering hires, and everything people will pay us for sits on top of the platform you build and own.
(We're also hiring a full-stack Founding Engineer — more product-oriented — and a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — more customer-oriented. Exceptional candidates have experience across all of these areas.)

Requirements

• Deep in Go
• Comfortable with distributed state and the failure modes that come with it
• Unbothered by owning a system in production — you've run something real, watched it break in interesting ways, and made it boring again.
• Use agents with real leverage, and you can show your verification habits, not just your throughput.
• Deep experience in storage, runtimes, or reliability
• Ability to follow a problem through code, tests, review, and production
• Work authorization in the United States
• Solid overlap with US Pacific Time

Nice To Haves

• Experience across product-oriented and customer-oriented engineering roles
• A particular cloud vendor
• Rust
• Experience with coding agents

Responsibilities

• Own large slices of the system, end to end.
• Turning Beads from a single-player experience into a platform — one store, many people and agents hitting it at once, scaling from a single developer to teams and organizations.
• Making the Gas City control plane true when the machine is in the cloud — polecats in containers, scaling as wide as needed.
• Implementing enterprise table stakes: Billing, permissions, SSO — everything needed to sit side by side with the tools companies already use.
• Defining SLOs before customers define them for us: observability, backups, and a security baseline that holds up when the first enterprise asks hard questions.
• Being paged by your own code.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision — 100% of premiums covered for you and 50% for your dependents.
• 401(k) starting Jan 1, 2027.
• Standard tech PTO plus company holidays.
• Home-office and equipment budget.
• Annual learning and conference budget.

What This Job Offers

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