Senior Platform Engineer

Intangible Technology Inc.; California (MO); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in creative technology is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to scale its infrastructure and enhance collaborative tools. You'll lead technical direction, design AI-assisted systems, and ensure high availability while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a remote-first culture. Exceptional candidates will have deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, with a passion for empowering creatives through innovative solutions.

Benefits

Health insurance for you and your dependants

401(k) plan

Flexible PTO

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, creative environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Intangible’s platform layer.
• Design infrastructure for AI-assisted tools.
• Lead backend services implementation focusing on security and performance.

Skills

Distributed systems

WebSockets

Real-time sync

Infrastructure-as-code

Cloud infrastructure

AI/ML models

Tools

IaC tools

Job description

About Intangible

Intangible is building the world's simplest 3D storytelling tool for film, agencies, games, and events powered by AI. We make constructing 3D experiences dramatically faster, cheaper and more collaborative for creative, distributed teams.

We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, artists and designers that have built and shipped multiple end-to-end products at companies like Apple, Unity, Pixar, ILM and Electronic Arts. Intangible is seed funded by a16z Speedrun, Crosslink Capital and prominent angels.

What it’s like to work at Intangible:

• We care about using AI to empower creatives.

• We are all doers. We care about shipping often, and with intent.

• The best idea wins. We want opinionated people who debate respectfully.

• We value people with consistently good judgment, regardless of rank.

• We value teammates that build trust with each other and check egos at the door.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure. You’ll build and maintain the data and services powering our creative tools, ensuring speed, reliability, and scale. Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments and orchestration of agentic APIs and data flows through these environments.

Location: Preference for SF/Bay Area, CA. Open to remote candidates in North America & Western EU.

What You'll Do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Intangible’s platform layer

• Design and evolve infrastructure for our AI-assisted, collaborative tools at scale

• Lead the implementation of backend services and APIs with a focus on security, modularity, and performance

Responsibilities

• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and system health tooling

• Ensure our systems meet high availability targets ("four nines") while remaining flexible for rapid iteration

• Integrate 3rd-party services including AI pipelines, payments, analytics, and user auth

• Collaborate across product, design, and ML to translate creative tooling needs into backend capabilities

Key Competencies

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, WebSockets, WebTransport, and realtime sync

• Optimizing schema and large data sets for use by LLMs

• Architecting and deploying multi-tenant systems with strong role, permission, and tenant isolation

• Managing schema migrations and cross-environment data synchronization safely

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools

• Practical use of AI/ML models in production (e.g., inference pipelines)

• Comfort working in a fast-moving, creative environment with a highly interdisciplinary team

Bonus Qualities

• Experience with 3D tools or creative platforms

• Passion for building creative tools and empowering artists

To learn more, check out:

Website

Demo video

Intangible Overview

Benefits

• We are a remote-first company with a small concentration in the Bay Area.

• Health insurance for you and your dependants

• 401(k) plan

• Flexible PTO