Senior Platform Engineer
Campus
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $205,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraform
About the role
- Ship backend systems that power admissions, financial aid, registrar workflows, reporting, and real-time student experiences
- Build and maintain data pipelines and ingestion flows supporting analytics, product, and operational automation
- Own CI/CD and deployment workflows to ensure fast, reliable releases across backend, mobile, and frontend
- Design and scale our cloud infrastructure using GCP and Terraform
- Improve developer experience and data scientist experience — tools, environments, testing workflows, and internal automations
- Partner across engineering (backend, mobile, data, product) to accelerate delivery and reduce operational friction
- Strengthen security & compliance through better access control, audit-ready logging, secrets management, and hardened infrastructure
Requirements
- 5–10 years of experience as a backend engineer, platform engineer, DevOps/SRE engineer, or data engineer
- You’ve built and maintained production services, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure at scale
- You’re strong in Go and you design backend systems for reliability and clarity
- You have hands-on experience with GCP, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD tooling
- You care deeply about reliability, performance, graceful degradation, and observability
- You have experience with data pipelines, warehouses, or operational data workflows
- You’re curious and growth-oriented, always learning, improving, and raising the engineering bar
- You communicate clearly and work collaboratively with low ego
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) match
- Fertility benefits via Carrot
- Flexible Time Away + paid holidays
- In-office lunches for our NY Office (did we mention, we’re dog friendly? 🐶)
- Hybrid work schedule (Mon & Fri remote; Tues-Thurs in-office)
- Social events - happy hours, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, & more!
- Opportunity to make an impact – you’ll be an integral player in bringing our vision to life
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
backend engineeringplatform engineeringDevOpsSREdata engineeringGodata pipelinescloud infrastructurereliabilityobservability
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationcuriositygrowth-orientedproblem-solvinglow ego