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Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

CompanyPrivy
LocationNew York, NY, USA
Salary$170000 – $250000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelJunior, Mid Level

Requirements

  • Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
  • An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
  • Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
  • Experience writing delightful developer documentation
  • As comfortable writing APIs and logic as you are writing infrastructure-as-code

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve core backend services and API platforms that serve billions of requests per month
  • Design and maintain the systems that underpin our engineering velocity—deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and internal developer tools
  • Lead efforts in observability, performance tuning, and reliability across our stack
  • Shape our approach to scaling and securing multi-tenant architecture
  • Advocate for strategic technical investments, balancing near-term shipping speed with long-term sustainability
  • Design and implement product features end-to-end, driven by user needs

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js, AWS/Terraform, Vercel
  • Past experience working in authentication or security