Staff Software Engineer – Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Co-manage the architecture and long-term sustainability of the core Laravel platform, database, API, background jobs, and internal administrative tools.

• Establish foundational platform elements such as stable APIs and contracts, CI/CD, environments, feature flags, observability, and on-call readiness.

• Lead efforts to scale databases, queues, caching, and third-party integrations.

• Determine when to maintain the monolith versus when to utilize services, queues, or event boundaries.

• Document architectural decisions and execute migrations safely.

• Prepare the platform to be agent-ready with bounded modules, rapid CI, dependable test environments, and secure, auditable access to production evidence for agents.

• Enhance reliability and security through multi-tenant data isolation, access controls, audit trails, and incident response in alignment with SOC 2 standards.

• Collaborate with C-Squad engineers via design and code reviews, mentoring, and facilitating problem resolution.

• Work alongside product and other squads to balance trade-offs between platform and feature development on the roadmap.

• Set the technical vision, write production code, and refine how the squad designs, delivers, and manages software.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in building and operating production backend systems, with recent roles at a staff or lead level.

• A product-focused mindset with the ability to influence the roadmap in collaboration with product and design teams.

• Extensive platform engineering expertise, including ownership of infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and runtime management of a growing product.

• Proven track record of scaling systems during periods of significant growth.

• Strong skills in relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, covering schema design, query optimization, indexing, and live data migrations.

• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, as well as containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD practices.

• Familiarity with asynchronous and distributed patterns, including queues, workers, webhooks, idempotency, and retries.

• Capability to lead by influence and establish technical direction.

• Daily, hands-on usage of AI coding agents.

• Experience in building agent tooling or harnesses, such as skills, MCP servers, evaluation loops, or agent guardrails.

• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs clearly.

• PHP and Laravel experience is a plus, particularly with Horizon, Nova, and queues.

• Strong engineers from Go, Python, Ruby, Node, Java, or similar backgrounds may adapt quickly.

• Experience in deconstructing or modernizing a monolith without undertaking a large-scale rewrite.

• Familiarity with observability tools like Sentry or Datadog.

• Experience in production incident response.

• Familiarity with SOC 2, HIPAA, or other compliance requirements for production environments.

• Experience integrating scheduling, calendar, SMS, or email services at scale.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Access to the same performance coaches that are available to our clients.

• Remote-first, asynchronous-friendly work environment.