Senior Platform Engineer

Toptal

Senior Platform Engineer at Toptal contributing to AI tooling and platform development. Leveraging Rust, React, and Kubernetes in a remote environment.

Posted 4/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesReactRustTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Make decisions based on multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
Implement quality gates and improve agentic-driven processes and workflows.
Collaborate on novel ideas to improve the team processes.
Lead initiatives and own subproducts and feature development from problem statement and specification to production deployment.
Care for and monitor the quality of our product.
Raise awareness of technical issues.
Develop a clear understanding of business value and collaborate with stakeholders by analyzing features and suggesting alternatives.
Assist our platform and tooling’s users with their issues and resolve bugs they may experience.
Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvements and suggest improvements in our technology stack.
Mentor fellow teammates.
Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid 8+ years of software development experience.
5+ years with systems-level or backend technologies such as Rust, Go, C/C++, or Java.
Experience in DevOps including containers, observability, and CI/CD is required.
Experience in Rust is preferred but not required.
Experience with Kubernetes and Helm is preferred.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) is preferred.
Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable) is preferred.
Experience with frontend technologies such as React is a plus.
Have adopted agentic development tools & practices for routine work and personal automation projects, such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini-cli, OpenCode, pi-agent or others.
Strong knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming, automated software testing, development, and testing essential methodologies.
Ability to consider multiple quality dimensions like risk assessment, user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
Thriving in autonomy in every aspect of daily work - be able to unblock yourself by finding the right people or help.
Being a team player by avoiding solo performances and unblocking your peers.
Caring for quality through impactful tests, process change proposals, and raising awareness of issues, be they product or technical.
Caring for architecture - applying best practices, using software design patterns, and bringing ideas for improvements.
Comfortable operating with high autonomy — you identify what needs building, not just how to build it.
You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Make decisions based on multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
Implement quality gates and improve agentic-driven processes and workflows.
Collaborate on novel ideas to improve the team processes.
Lead initiatives and own subproducts and feature development from problem statement and specification to production deployment.
Care for and monitor the quality of our product.
Raise awareness of technical issues.
Develop a clear understanding of business value and collaborate with stakeholders by analyzing features and suggesting alternatives.
Assist our platform and tooling’s users with their issues and resolve bugs they may experience.
Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvements and suggest improvements in our technology stack.
Mentor fellow teammates.
Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager. 🎯 Requirements
Solid 8+ years of software development experience.
5+ years with systems-level or backend technologies such as Rust, Go, C/C++, or Java.
Experience in DevOps including containers, observability, and CI/CD is required.
Experience in Rust is preferred but not required.
Experience with Kubernetes and Helm is preferred.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) is preferred.
Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable) is preferred.
Experience with frontend technologies such as React is a plus.
Have adopted agentic development tools & practices for routine work and personal automation projects, such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini-cli, OpenCode, pi-agent or others.
Strong knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming, automated software testing, development, and testing essential methodologies.
Ability to consider multiple quality dimensions like risk assessment, user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
Thriving in autonomy in every aspect of daily work - be able to unblock yourself by finding the right people or help.
Being a team player by avoiding solo performances and unblocking your peers.
Caring for quality through impactful tests, process change proposals, and raising awareness of issues, be they product or technical.
Caring for architecture - applying best practices, using software design patterns, and bringing ideas for improvements.
Comfortable operating with high autonomy — you identify what needs building, not just how to build it.
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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentRustGoC/C++JavaDevOpscontainersCI/CDKubernetesTerraform

Soft Skills

communicationteam playerautonomymentoringproblem-solvingcollaborationquality awarenessrisk assessmentleadershipprocess improvement