Staff Platform Engineer
Staff Platform Engineer at Ironsite building and scaling a construction technology platform that processes video data into actionable tools for construction teams. Core technologies include React/TypeScript for frontend, Node.js/PostgreSQL/Redis for backend, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of full-stack product development in production environments
- Deep expertise across the stack — modern frontend frameworks (React/TypeScript) and backend technologies (Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis)
Nice to have
- Strong background in API design, third-party integrations, and real-time data and analytics surfaces
- Production experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and shipping reliable, high-scale web applications
- Systems thinking for end-to-end product architecture and cross-team integration
- Bachelors degree (B.S./B.A.) or Masters degree (M.S./M.A.) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field
- Experience with construction management software (Procore, Autodesk, Trimble), HR tech, or similar enterprise workflow tools
- Background building analytics dashboards, reporting systems, and business intelligence surfaces
- Experience shipping mobile web apps with offline/low-connectivity and multi-language support
- Experience with construction, manufacturing, or similar operational industries
Full description
About Ironsite
Ironsite is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We design our own wearable hardware, deploy it alongside craft workers, and transform a shift's footage into a next-morning report. Our internal team and purpose-built models label the data overnight and deliver actionable insights to superintendents by 5 AM.
We are accelerating the speed, efficiency, and predictability of construction, especially for complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects, including data centers, LNG facilities, sports stadiums, hospitals, and other large-scale developments, by training AI models on egocentric construction footage and labor productivity data. We are built with a pro-worker philosophy at our core: we believe technology should empower the workforce, not replace it. We're working to give craft workers and project leaders better visibility into what's happening on-site, while creating a system where the reality of construction and the chaos of each day are finally available to the people running the project.
Ironsite is deployed across several of the largest active construction projects in the country. To date, we've captured more than 100,000 hours of construction footage across seven states, now process thousands of hours of site activity every day, and maintain a worker opt-out rate below two percent. This is enabled by a workforce-first architecture that anonymizes devices, captures no audio, and never releases raw video.
Ironsite is backed by leading investors (8VC, South Park Commons, Saga Ventures) and prominent operators across technology and construction, including Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Leslie, Scott Wu, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Russell Kaplan, and others, alongside over a dozen construction industry operators who have joined us as partners in building this.
Longer term, we believe Ironsite is the foundation for what construction becomes in the next decade. The systems we're building will be the operating system for how the physical world gets built. We see a future where craft workers are more valued, more visible, and better paid for the skill they bring, and where the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both start with the same foundation.
The Role
We're hiring an exceptional Staff Platform Engineer to help build the Ironsite platform, the product surface that turns our video data into something construction teams act on every day.
You'll own the technical foundation for the dashboards project leaders open at 5 AM, the labor-management tools superintendents run their entire jobsite on, the mobile experience craft workers carry in their pocket, and the integration layer that connects Ironsite to the software the industry already lives in. This is the work that decides whether Ironsite becomes the operating system for the field or another tool competing for attention.