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Staff Platform Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$175K - $200K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Platform Engineer
Rockstar
• 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.
Job 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 on AWS.
- Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support significant business growth.
- Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL 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.
Benefits
- Fully remote position
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