Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Jun 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To build the paved road for product teams and drive adoption at scale, the full-time Senior Platform Engineer will design and operate the developer platform focusing on AI-native tooling while working remotely.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain and extend service provisioning foundations using Backstage for service templating and contribute to an AI-enriched service catalog
- Build and scale agent golden paths by evolving agentic infrastructure and defining deployment standards for AI agents
- Drive service mesh adoption by leading the rollout of Istio and creating straightforward golden paths and runbooks for product teams
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps, SRE, Software, or Platform Engineer with a focus on services and tooling
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Production experience with Backstage or similar developer portals, service catalogs, and software templates
- Proficiency in cloud and container technologies (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Istio) and infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
- Strong coding skills in at least one of TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Java, or Python, along with familiarity with multi-repo change management
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