Senior Platform Engineer

Daytona Platforms Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to architect and implement APIs and orchestration tools. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and performance, requiring experience with distributed systems. You will contribute to scalable services and improve the developer experience. This position offers a full-time opportunity in New York, and candidates are encouraged from various locations, including remote options.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed systems, APIs, and large-scale services.
• Comfortable with orchestration, scheduling, and service-to-service communication.
• Write clean, maintainable code and value long-term platform stability.
• Write clean, maintainable code and define robust interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Daytona’s core APIs and orchestrator.
• Develop services and tooling that improve scalability and reliability.
• Contribute to standards and best practices for system design.
• Improve developer experience through robust abstractions and interfaces.
• Contribute to standards and best practices for system design and service architecture.
• Write documentation and tooling references.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs

Service-to-service communication

Reliability

Performance at scale

Tools

Kubernetes

Container runtimes

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

Location: New York, San Francisco or Croatia

Type: Full-time

About the Role

We’re seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help build and scale Daytona’s core components. You’ll work on the APIs, orchestrator, and supporting services that form the backbone of Daytona’s runtime layer.

This is a highly technical role where you’ll architect, implement, and optimize mission-critical infrastructure that powers thousands of developers and millions of AI agents. If building reliable, elegant, and extensible platforms excites you, this role is for you.

What You'll Be Doing

Design, build, and maintain Daytona’s core APIs and orchestrator

Develop supporting services and tooling that improve scalability and reliability

Collaborate with AI and systems engineers to ensure seamless integrations across the stack

Improve developer experience through robust abstractions and interfaces

Contribute to standards and best practices for system design and service architecture

Write documentation, developer guides, and tooling references

You Might Be a Fit If You

Have experience building distributed systems, APIs, and large-scale services

Are comfortable with orchestration, scheduling, and service-to-service communication

Care deeply about reliability, security, and performance at scale

Write clean, maintainable code and value long-term platform stability

Enjoy working across multiple layers of the stack

Bonus Points

Experience with Kubernetes, container runtimes, or orchestration frameworks

Familiarity with developer tooling, infra platforms, or AI runtime layers

Contributions to open-source projects in distributed systems or platform engineering

About Daytona

Daytona is building the agent-native runtime layer for modern software development. Our platform spins up secure, sandboxed environments in under 90ms, used by developers and AI agents alike. Daytona is open source, trusted by thousands, and backed by top-tier investors.

We’re not just making dev environments faster. We’re redefining how software gets built.

Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. We appreciate all the applications we receive, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.