Platform Engineer (Early Career)

Expo; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

401(k) with company matching

Equipment budget

Flexible schedule

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Budget for courses/books/training

Conference attendance opportunities

Job summary

Expo, Inc. is seeking an early-career infrastructure engineer to design, build, and operate backend systems powering developer-facing services. You will own deploy paths, CI, and preview environments, improving tooling to ship faster and reduce CI time and cost.

You will write reliable code with tests, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate on documentation and reviews. Prior container and cloud experience is valuable in a team that ships at scale.

Qualifications

• Early-career engineers with interest in backend infra and distributed systems.
• Experience with containers, CI pipelines, and deploying services.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and Terraform is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure for developer-facing services.
• Own deploy path, CI, and preview environments to ship safely.
• Improve internal tooling to reduce CI time and costs.
• Write reliable software with tests and monitoring; participate in on-call rotations.
• Contribute to documentation, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI pipelines

Containers

Cloud experience

Strong written comms

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Job description

Behind EAS are web services and infrastructure that serve both developers and their end users. Developers rely on EAS to build their own apps and making our backend infrastructure for building apps, running CI/CD workflows, serving app updates, and web hosting reliable is one of the ways we build developer trust. We're looking for engineers early in their career to come work with us on EAS's infrastructure and help us let every engineer and agent ship a service safely, from pull request to production.

• Join EAS’s infrastructure team as an early-career engineer, working alongside a senior engineer.
• Learn to design, build, and operate the backend infrastructure behind our developer-facing services, including the deploy path, CI, and preview environments.
• Build internal improvements that help us ship services faster, cut CI time and cost, and make Expo a better place to work.
• Write software that runs correctly and efficiently, and own its uptime and performance.
• Own the code you write: add tests and monitoring, and join your team’s on‑call rotation.
• You’re curious about containers, CI pipelines, and writing small services, and you have some experience with each.
• You’ve built something real, end to end: a service or pipeline that people actually use.
• You’re comfortable with continuous integration at scale and with deploying to Kubernetes.
• You have cloud experience. We use Google Cloud, but deep experience with AWS, Azure, or a home lab carries over well.
• You have the knowledge taught in courses on operating systems, networks, databases, and distributed systems, whether you learned it in school or on your own.
• You’ve gone deep on at least one low-level area: containers, CI internals, Kubernetes deploys, or infrastructure as code.
• You’re comfortable writing code and want to write a lot more of it.
• Bonus: experience with GitHub Actions internals or Terraform.
• You make sound decisions on your own and bring new, effective ideas to improve how app software is built and distributed.
• You write services that stay healthy long after you’ve moved on to your next project.
• You respond quickly to teammates so Expo keeps making fast, steady progress.
• You get yourself unstuck and help others get unstuck too.
• You know why well-designed tools and APIs matter, and you ship well-designed, well-tested features quickly.
• You communicate ideas and code clearly through documentation, GitHub reviews, blog posts, and other writing.
• You understand the problems and goals of Expo’s users and think about them every day.
• You use agents for real work every day, and you can explain what you checked before you trusted the result.
• You get better every week. You’re curious and focused, and you own what you run.

Expo is agentic mobile infrastructure for building, shipping, and running native apps for iOS, Android, and the web. Millions of developers and AI agents use Expo’s open‑source framework and cloud services to go from idea to production, with tools to build, submit to the app stores, ship over‑the‑air updates, and monitor performance and crashes at scale. Founded in 2015, Expo is on a mission to make great software development accessible to everyone.

We offer competitive compensation and a supportive environment to help you do your best work:

• Compensation: Competitive salary + equity package.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan with company matching - U.S. only.
• Equipment budget: $6,000 to set up your ideal work setup (laptop, monitor, etc.).
• Flexible schedule: We care about outcomes, not 9‑to‑5 hours. Adjust your work schedule to when you’re most productive.
• Flexible PTO: Take the time you need - employees average about 17 days off per year (in addition to regional holidays).
• Parental leave: 12-week fully paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Continuous learning: Annual budget for courses, books, or training to invest in your professional development.
• Community & Growth: Opportunities to speak at conferences, represent Expo at industry events, and attend regional meetups with the team.

Expo is a distributed team that works mostly during North American hours. We are hiring across the United States.

You'll learn about our team and we'll learn about you to see where you'd fit in. We'll also discuss your experience and what you're looking for in your next role.

Interview with the team

You'll meet with a few members of the team to discuss your experience, technical skills, and how you'd approach the role. Typically this is done over four 45m video calls that occur over a few days.

Once we've decided to move forward, we'll make you an offer. We'll discuss the details of the offer and answer any questions you have.