Platform Architect: Scale, Reliability & Observability

First Resonance; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Option Plan

Team outings

Paid holidays

Flexible Friday and PTO

401K

Job summary

First Resonance in Los Angeles seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to lead and scale their backend architecture. The ideal candidate will possess over 8 years in software engineering, demonstrating experience in high-availability services, systems thinking, and excellent communication. Responsibilities include driving performance, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers. The company offers comprehensive health insurance, flexible PTO, and an inclusive workplace culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time owning backend/platform systems in production.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating high-availability, high-uptime services.
• Strong systems thinking across distributed systems, databases, caching, and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Own platform architecture at scale to support growth in customers and data volume.
• Establish and improve reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, incident response).
• Identify systemic performance bottlenecks and lead improvement initiatives.

Skills

Backend/platform systems

High-availability services

Systems thinking

Communication skills

Incident response

Job description

First Resonance in Los Angeles seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to lead and scale their backend architecture. The ideal candidate will possess over 8 years in software engineering, demonstrating experience in high-availability services, systems thinking, and excellent communication. Responsibilities include driving performance, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers. The company offers comprehensive health insurance, flexible PTO, and an inclusive workplace culture.