Intangible

Senior Platform Engineer

Intangible

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgres

About the role

  • Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Intangible's platform layer
  • Design and evolve infrastructure for our AI-assisted, collaborative tools at scale
  • Lead the implementation of backend services and APIs with a focus on security, modularity, and performance
  • Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and system health tooling
  • Ensure our systems meet high availability targets ("four nines") while remaining flexible for rapid iteration
  • Integrate 3rd-party services including AI pipelines, payments, analytics, and user auth
  • Collaborate across product, design, and ML to translate creative tooling needs into backend capabilities

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments, including orchestration of agentic APIs and data flows through these environments
  • Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Practical expertise with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, WebSockets, WebTransport, and realtime sync
  • Optimizing schema and large data sets for use by LLMs
  • Architecting and deploying multi-tenant systems with strong role, permission, and tenant isolation
  • Managing schema migrations and cross-environment data synchronization safely
  • Expertise in GCP and/or PostgreSQL (bonus)
  • Experience with 3D tools or creative platforms (bonus)
  • Passion for building creative tools and empowering artists (bonus)
  • Experience using AI tools to improve engineering workflows (e.g., code generation, debugging, testing, documentation), or strong openness to adopting them (bonus)
Benefits
  • We are a remote-first, distributed company with a concentration in the SF/Bay Area.
  • Health insurance for you and your dependants
  • 401(k) plan with employer contribution
  • Flexible PTO
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Hard Skills & Tools
infrastructure-as-codeCI/CDobservabilitysystem health toolingbackend servicesAPIscloud infrastructuredistributed systemsschema migrationsdata synchronization
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationcommunication