Staff Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Singapore, +6 more countries.

📋 Description

• Develop shared platform capabilities for configuration, identity and permissions, tenant isolation, model and retrieval access, and evaluation.

• Extract shared functionalities from current products without hindering delivery schedules.

• Promote the adoption of shared platform elements across various teams.

• Make architectural and migration decisions across repositories from design through to production operations.

• Establish and maintain standards for ownership, code reviews, testing, security, and releases.

• Enable client-specific behaviors without creating forks or using client-specific conditional code.

• Work collaboratively with infrastructure engineers on deployment, CI/CD, and observability.

• Ensure that every critical system has a secondary owner, including systems developed within this role.

• Familiarize yourself with the codebase and existing platform work, agree on migration sequencing, and become a second owner of a key system within the first month.

• Deliver the initial shared capability to production with tests, an assigned owner, and an adoption strategy in the second month.

• Facilitate the adoption or migration of the second product, document the upcoming two quarters of platform work, and establish a secondary owner by the third month.

• Write production code weekly; this position is a hands-on individual contributor role, not a management position.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in building production backend systems.

• Genuine Staff-level experience, including architecture spanning multiple teams, migrations managed from initiation to completion, and adoption spearheaded in teams not directly reporting to you.

• Proficient in production TypeScript and Node.js.

• Comfortable working with Python and reviewing code written in other languages.

• Experience in designing, testing, and operating multi-tenant SaaS controls that safeguard client data from unauthorized access by others.

• Experience with deconstructing a monolith or extracting shared services while maintaining production operations.

• Sound infrastructure judgment involving Kubernetes, GCP or AWS, CI/CD, and observability.

• Capacity to design for infrastructure and evaluate infrastructure projects.

• Strong security and data-handling instincts, preferably from a regulated environment.

• Clear written communication skills across three time zones.

• Ability to resist unsafe shortcuts under pressure while preserving trust.

• Nice to have: experience in banking, insurance, or another regulated industry; familiarity with security reviews, SOC 2, or Singapore's OSPAR.

• Nice to have: experience in LLM application work, including model gateways, retrieval, prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses, and testing non-deterministic outputs.

• Nice to have: experience with internal developer platforms or self-service configuration systems.

• Nice to have: practical use of AI coding tools and an honest perspective on when they provide value versus when they generate plausible but unread code.

🏝️ Benefits

• No benefits, perks, or additional compensation details are specified in the posting.