Staff Platform Engineer

10 hours, 27 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure

Rockstar

Rockstar is a platform that connects top talent with companies, helping individuals land roles that accelerate their careers. They focus on roles that offer competitive cash and the opportunity to impact the trajectory of the business.

Professional Services
1-10

Description

  • Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform infrastructure, reliability, and scalability initiatives.
  • Design and review complex system architectures that support company growth and changing business needs.
  • Establish engineering standards, best practices, and technical patterns across multiple teams.
  • Improve system observability, incident response processes, and operational excellence across the platform.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to align technical investments with business priorities.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that strengthens engineering capabilities across the organization.
  • Build and improve backend services, infrastructure tooling, and shared platform capabilities.
  • Identify technical debt, scalability risks, and operational vulnerabilities before they become business constraints.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale backend platforms and distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise building, scaling, and modernizing production Django applications.
  • Expert-level experience architecting and operating cloud environments on AWS.
  • Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support significant business growth.
  • Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
  • Experience building observability, monitoring, incident management, and reliability practices.
  • Demonstrated success driving engineering decisions and influencing technical direction across teams.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts and develop other engineers.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States and complete the E-Verify and I-9 process.

Benefits

  • Fully remote position.
  • Annual base salary of $175,000 to $200,000 USD.

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