Platform Engineer: Ship Production Features Fast

Digital Waffle; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Digital Waffle in San Francisco is seeking a graduate platform engineer to join a 12-person team building the deployment and observability layer that supports production workloads. You’ll work on the backend with Go and the frontend with TypeScript and React, shipping to production in your first fortnight with a named mentor and code reviews from people who’ve done this at scale.

You’ll be mentored as you contribute early, with focus on building reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Evidence of shipping a side project, open-source contribution, or a self-built tool.
• Demonstrated interest in scalable systems and load behavior.

Responsibilities

• Join a 12-person platform team.
• Build the deployment and observability layer for production workloads.
• Work on the backend with Go, and on the frontend with TypeScript and React.
• Utilize Postgres and Kafka for underlying systems.
• Ship to production within the first fortnight.
• Receive mentorship and code reviews from experienced team members.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

C++

Java

System load behavior

Room four days a week

Deployment tools

Observability tools

Production workloads

Job description

Digital Waffle in San Francisco is seeking a graduate platform engineer to join a 12-person team building the deployment and observability layer that supports production workloads. You’ll work on the backend with Go and the frontend with TypeScript and React, shipping to production in your first fortnight with a named mentor and code reviews from people who’ve done this at scale.

You’ll be mentored as you contribute early, with focus on building reliable systems.