Staff Platform Engineer (Fully Remote)

Here’s What You’ll Do Day-To-Day:

Platform Strategy – Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform infrastructure, reliability, and scalability initiatives.

Architecture Leadership – Design and review complex system architectures that support company growth and evolving business needs.

Technical Direction – Establish engineering standards, best practices, and technical patterns across multiple teams.

Reliability Ownership – Improve system observability, incident response processes, and operational excellence across the platform.

Cross-Team Influence – Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to align technical investments with business priorities.

Mentorship & Coaching – Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that elevates engineering capabilities across the organization.

Platform Development – Build and improve backend services, infrastructure tooling, and shared platform capabilities.

Risk Management – Identify technical debt, scalability risks, and operational vulnerabilities before they become business constraints.

Here’s What You’ll Need To Be Successful:

• Platform Expertise – Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale backend platforms and distributed systems.

• Django Mastery – Deep expertise building, scaling, and modernizing production Django applications.

• Cloud Architecture – Expert-level experience architecting and operating cloud environments within AWS.

• Systems Design – Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support significant business growth.

• Database Leadership – Advanced knowledge of Postgres architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.

• Operational Excellence – Experience building observability, monitoring, incident management, and reliability practices.

• Technical Influence – Demonstrated success driving engineering decisions and influencing technical direction across teams.

• Mentorship & Communication – Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts and develop other engineers.

The Interview Process:

• Your application will be reviewed for possible next steps by the Hiring Manager.
• If you meet eligibility requirements, the next step would be a video screen with a member of the PeopleOps team for about thirty (30) minutes.
• If warranted, the next step would be a video interview with our Director of Platform for one (1) hour.
• If warranted, the next step would be a video panel interview with key stakeholders at PadSplit for two (2) hours.
• The panel interview will require a candidate to work on a technical assessment where you will showcase your software skills to the panel for discussion. 
• If warranted, the final interview would be with our CTO.
• If warranted, then we move to contract!