Staff Platform Engineer (Fully Remote)
Job Location:
Atlanta, GA - USA
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Job Summary
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 companys long-term growth.
Were 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.
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.
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.
- 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!
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
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