Senior Engineer (Platform)

Oyster; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere

40 days PTO (paid time off)

Mental health support

Wellbeing allowance

Flexible parental leave

WFH stipend

Job summary

Oyster is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the platform between code and production, focusing on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling. You’ll simplify infrastructure and improve reliability, working with distributed teams and employing AI to boost productivity.

You will design, implement, and operate scalable AWS-based systems, promote best practices in reliability, and collaborate across security and infra teams in a remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE or similar production engineering role.
• Strong software development skills to build automation and platform tooling.
• Proven design/operation of production systems on AWS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and production debugging tools (Datadog, Sentry).
• Knowledge of reliability, incident response, and operational best practices.
• Platform mindset: treat internal teams as customers and reduce cognitive load.
• Excellent communication in remote, asynchronous environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain internal tooling and abstractions to simplify developer workflows.
• Build and improve automated CI/CD pipelines for safe, frequent deployments.
• Operate and enhance Oyster’s AWS infrastructure with IaC and cost-conscious practices.
• Apply SRE practices to improve reliability and reduce outages.
• Explore AI and automation to boost developer productivity and streamline workflows.
• Turn recurring pain points into scalable platform solutions with data-driven feedback.
• Collaborate with application, security, and infra teams to ensure secure, reliable software.

Skills

5+ years experience

software development

AWS production systems

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

observability

reliability

platform mindset

remote, asynchronous work

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Datadog

Sentry

Drone/Harness

Job description

One platform, a whole world of opportunity

The best jobs have always clustered in a handful of the world's wealthiest cities. But talent is everywhere. Oyster set out to close that gap - building a global employment platform that lets companies hire, pay, and care for brilliant people anywhere.

We're proof that a high-performing culture doesn't need an office. Distributed across 60+ countries since 2020, we've built something the industry keeps noticing:

• Ranked #10 of 250 on TIME and Statista's 2026 list of America's Top WorkTech Companies
• Named one of America's Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026 by Newsweek
• A G2 Spring 2026 Leader across Employer of Record, Global Employment, Multi-country Payroll, and HR Compliance
• The only B Corp-certified global employment platform ~ independently verified since 2023

Two of those rankings measured our business impact from the outside. One measured how our own people feel about working here. They landed in the same place ~ because at Oyster, culture and performance aren't separate conversations. They're the same one.

The Role

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote, and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within +4 / +0 UTC.

Oyster’s Platform Flow Engineering team builds the systems and tooling that allow our engineers to ship software quickly, safely, and reliably at scale. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll help shape the platform capabilities that sit between code and production, from CI/CD and cloud infrastructure to observability, developer tooling, and operational workflows.

You’ll work closely with application and security engineers to remove infrastructure complexity, create better developer experiences, and build reliable, secure foundations that scale with Oyster. You’ll also explore practical ways to use AI to improve developer productivity, automate operational workflows, and reduce engineering toil.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a world-class developer experience: Design and maintain internal tooling, packages, and abstractions that create simple, self-service paths for engineers and reduce infrastructure complexity and operational toil.
• Own the path from commit to production: Build, operate, and continuously improve reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines that enable engineers to ship safely, frequently, and with confidence.
• Evolve our cloud platform: Operate and improve Oyster’s AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, with a focus on scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Improve reliability and observability: Apply SRE principles, observability, and effective incident-management practices to reduce outages, accelerate recovery, and identify opportunities to eliminate recurring operational work.
• Accelerate engineering with AI: Identify and implement practical ways to use AI, automation, and intelligent tooling to improve developer productivity, accelerate incident diagnosis, automate repetitive workflows, and reduce operational toil.
• Build platform capabilities as a product: Understand the needs of internal engineering teams, turn recurring pain points into scalable platform solutions, and use feedback and metrics to continuously improve the developer experience.
• Partner closely with engineering: Work openly with application, security, and infrastructure teams to diagnose issues, support incident response, and help teams adopt reliable and secure ways of building and operating software.

Core Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar production engineering role.
• Strong software development experience, with the ability to build maintainable automation, tooling, and platform abstractions.
• Proven experience designing and operating production systems on AWS.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform or an equivalent technology.
• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production debugging using tools such as Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of reliability, incident response, and operational best practices.
• A platform mindset: you think about internal engineering teams as customers and look for ways to reduce their cognitive load and make the safe path the easy path.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly in remote, asynchronous engineering environments.

Bonus Points

• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms, golden paths, or self-service infrastructure.
• Experience using AI coding assistants, agents, or AI-powered developer tooling to improve engineering productivity or automate infrastructure and operational workflows.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with Harness, Drone, or other modern CI/CD platforms.
• Experience automating Heroku, Render, or similar application platforms through Terraform or scripted workflows.
• Experience improving macOS and Linux developer environments through automation and tooling.
• Experience working in remote-first, globally distributed teams.

You'll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one).
• Fluent English language skills.

How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes Oyster what it is. We make it happen - progress is our default setting. We drive change, we build and give trust, and we move as one united team.

Our mission is to create a more equal world of work: helping companies everywhere hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. Everything we do ladders up to our mission. We embrace asynchronous, collaborative work and share how we operate in the Oyster Public HQ so other global teams can learn from us.

With diverse locations, cultures, and needs, we created How YOU Work; a program supporting your whole human experience at Oyster:

• Work from anywhere: Oyster has no borders or HQ. As long as work is timely, your team is supported, and you're authorized to work where you live, you can work from anywhere.
• Paid time off: Enjoy 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country.
• Mental health support: Access Plumm, our mental well-being service.
• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet to spend on a wide range of options.
• Flexible parental leave: All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally.
• WFH stipend: Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly.

The best jobs should be available to everyone

We embrace diverse perspectives and intentionally build our product and company with an inclusive, global mindset.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email [e-mail] with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are on our careers page. Our team will only contact you from an @oysterhr.com email, and we will never