Agentic Platform Engineer for Multi-Portfolio Startups

Beacon Holdings; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Software seeks engineers who bring deep experience across multiple tech stacks and strong independent judgment. You will influence product direction, balance priorities, and drive critical initiatives while juggling 3+ companies in a week.

You will harness AI coding tools and mentor others to use them effectively. You will work alongside small engineering teams at portfolio companies, shipping features quickly, fixing incidents, and shaping designs before coding begins.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience across several stacks. Religious about none of them.
• Judgment that does not need a committee. You are often the only Beacon person in the room.
• A nose for what matters. You can tell which roadmap item pays for the other nine.
• Initiative. Nobody hands you a backlog. You find the work.
• Comfort with context switching - you may work with 3+ companies in a given week.
• Easy to work with. The engineers you support do not owe you their trust. You earn it.
• Daily use of AI coding tools, and the ability to teach them to someone else.

Responsibilities

• Show a team how to ship a feature in days instead of weeks, and stay until they can do it without you.
• Work a production incident with the team. Find the root cause, then fix whatever let it happen.
• Review the design for the next big piece of work before anyone writes code.
• Interview candidates for a company that has never run a hiring process.
• Find the manual process eating a GM's week and automate it away.

Skills

Experience across stacks

Judgment

Initiative

Context switching

AI tooling

Collaboration

Tools

AI coding tools

Job description

Beacon Software seeks engineers who bring deep experience across multiple tech stacks and strong independent judgment. You will influence product direction, balance priorities, and drive critical initiatives while juggling 3+ companies in a week.

You will harness AI coding tools and mentor others to use them effectively. You will work alongside small engineering teams at portfolio companies, shipping features quickly, fixing incidents, and shaping designs before coding begins.