Sr. Platform Software Engineer
- Compensation
- $160K–$250K / yr
- Location
- NYC, NY
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
- Experience in high-growth or early-stage startups
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure
- Experience designing multi-service distributed systems
Full description
STLabs is an AI service management platform that resolves employee requests end-to-end, grounded in a living model of the enterprise. This matters because we're able to resolve requests with full context - the people, systems, services, and policies that define how an organization actually runs. Requests that used to take days of back-and-forth resolve in minutes, right where employees already work.
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The role
We’re looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build the systems, tooling, and internal platform that make engineers dramatically more productive.
This role sits at the intersection of:
- Platform engineering
- Developer experience (DevEx)
- Infrastructure automation
- Distributed systems
You’ll build the foundation that enables engineers to Ship faster, Deploy safely, Debug quickly & Operate confidently in production
This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You’ll write code, design systems, and shape how engineering works across the company.
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What you’ll work on
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Developer Productivity & Internal Platform
- Build and evolve our internal developer platform (IDP)
- Create self-service tooling that makes spinning up services, environments, and infrastructure effortless
- Improve local development workflows, testing, deployment ergonomics, and developer feedback loops
- Reduce operational friction through automation and platform abstractions
CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions &Infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Improve: Build times, Deployment reliability & Rollback and recovery systems
- Create deployment workflows that are fast, observable, and boring in production
Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes
- Design and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, EKS, Docker & Kubernetes
- Improve platform scalability, resilience, and developer onboarding
- Define service architecture and deployment standards across the engineering organization
Observability & Reliability
- Own observability across the platform using Datadog, Metrics, Logging and Distributed tracing
- Build dashboards, alerts, and operational tooling engineers actually use
- Improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility across services