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Senior Platform Engineer
Location
New York
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$145K - $190K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Platform Engineer
Istari
• Own the end-to-end architecture of the Core Platform, including backend services, SDKs, AI-enabled components, and related infrastructure. • Design and implement scalable APIs, event-driven systems, distributed services, and AI-integrated capabilities (including AI/ML and MCP integrations). • Architect systems that reliably incorporate AI models into production environments, with strong attention to observability, latency, cost management, and failure handling. • Lead API design and implementation with a focus on usability, performance, and long-term maintainability. • Architect and evolve microservices using domain-driven design principles. • Build platform abstractions and primitives that enable AI-driven workflows and agent-based capabilities. • Partner closely with Product, Infra, and Customer Success teams to deliver seamless, customer-centric integration capabilities. • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to engineers. • Establish and elevate engineering best practices across design, development, testing, and operations.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven experience building scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems, including systems that integrate AI/ML capabilities.
- Experience integrating AI-powered features into production systems, with an understanding of performance, reliability, and governance considerations.
- Deep expertise in REST API design and implementation.
- Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures.
- Strong coding skills across multiple layers of the stack (backend services, SDKs, developer tooling, and AI-integrated systems).
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and domain-driven design.
- Strong proficiency in Python (object-oriented and functional programming).
- Experience with Golang and TypeScript desired.
- Track record of technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at both technical and strategic levels.
- Must be a US citizen living within the United States.
Benefits
- Bonuses
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits package
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