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Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Sep 02, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days

Job Summary

Joining the Prefect Cloud team, the full-time Staff Platform Engineer will establish strategies for maintaining high-quality service, lead operationally mature work, and proactively improve user experience while working remotely.

Key responsibilities
  • Establish strategies for maintaining high quality of service, including identifying service-level indicators and defining error budgets
  • Lead operationally mature work by writing maintainable code, participating in on-call and incident response, and improving owned systems over time
  • Proactively identify opportunities to enhance user experience through performance engineering and automation improvements
Required qualifications
  • Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production
  • Expertise managing production services in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with monitoring tools like DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
  • Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like Kubernetes and Terraform

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