Staff Platform Engineer

Overview

Staff Platform Engineer

• to help shape and scale the backend foundation of an AI-driven ecosystem operating at
• government scale
• .
• This is a
• high-impact, staff-level IC role
• where you define architecture, set standards, and act as a force multiplier across engineering teams.
• What you’ll work on:
• Designing
• backend platform architecture
• (services, APIs, system boundaries)
• Building and scaling
• event-driven systems

(Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs)

• Owning
• data infrastructure
• (PostgreSQL, pipelines, ETL, caching)
• Leading
• Kubernetes-based platform & CI/CD architecture
• Driving
• observability, SLOs, and reliability engineering
• Shaping
• Azure cloud infrastructure & platform security
• What makes this role unique:
• You’re not building features—you’re building the
• platform everything runs on
• You’ll influence
• long-term architecture across multiple teams and entities
• Strong focus on
• distributed systems, reliability, and scalability
• Opportunity to define engineering standards in a
• mission-critical environment
• We’re looking for someone with:
• 10+ years in
• backend/platform engineering
• Deep expertise in
• distributed systems & event-driven architecture
• Strong hands-on experience with

Kubernetes, Azure, PostgreSQL

• A track record of
• setting technical direction at scale

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