Senior Platform Engineer

MetaProp; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary package

Health insurance

Remote work options

Vacation policy

Job summary

Odin Labs, Inc. is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to anchor the platform team and own Odin’s digital infrastructure and field hardware. You will be the end-to-end technical owner, ensuring reliability and velocity across services used by product engineering teams.

You will shift security and stability left, lead triage and postmortems, and mentor engineers while keeping the system running at scale. This role emphasizes on-call leadership and hands-on coding in a high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems and platform engineering for production infra.
• Infrastructure as code with review discipline akin to application code.
• Backend depth in a modern TypeScript ecosystem; you still write production code.
• Hands-on with production field devices or hardware ecosystems.
• Reliability and developer experience are core products you own.
• Calm under pressure; lead incidents and triage effectively.
• Track record mentoring engineers and raising craft.
• Strong written and verbal communication in architecture reviews and runbooks.
• Ability to learn quickly across domains and adapt to new tech.
• AI is used to accelerate engineering while maintaining code quality.

Responsibilities

• Own bounded services that form the platform; design, build, and operate them with infrastructure-as-code.
• Lead hardware operations; define provisioning and fleet management to Odin’s standards.
• Build monitoring and alerting to catch problems early and keep platform state clear.
• Own escalation path for infrastructure incidents; run postmortems to improve systems.
• Take turn on call; structure and scale rotations for team welfare.
• Write runbooks and automate repetitive tasks to enable others.
• Improve CI, deployments, environment management, and developer experience.
• Mentor through code reviews and incident response; raise the bar for the team.
• Gain first-hand knowledge of customer workflows by visiting jobsites and observing usage.

Skills

Platform engineering

Infrastructure as code

Backend (TypeScript)

Hardware operation

Reliability focus

Incident response

Mentoring engineers

Written communication

Cross-domain learning

AI-assisted development

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Node.js

GraphQL

Job description

About Odin

Odin Labs, Inc. (“Odin”) is the workforce visibility and compliance platform powering the next generation of infrastructure. As demand accelerates for AI data centers, clean energy projects, and large-scale construction, Odin provides the operational backbone for real-time workforce tracking, credential verification, site access, and compliance management. We experienced more than 7x revenue growth from 2024 to 2025, and 2026 has already surpassed 2025 growth.

Odin’s growth is driven by rapid expansion and adoption of our software platform across complex, high-compliance construction environments. As we continue to see strong market momentum and a growth in complex construction programs, Odin is preparing for its next stage of scale.

About the Role

We are hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to anchor the platform team at Odin. You are the end-to-end technical owner of Odin's platform, the digital infrastructure and field hardware that customer-facing services run on. The platform team is an internal service. Your customers are the product engineering teams that build upon those services.

You are responsible for the systems that simultaneously increase product reliability and engineering velocity. You shift security and stability left so problems show up while engineers are still writing the code, not after it ships. You raise operational rigor to detect and prevent issues. When they arise, your team leads the triage and incident response, and improves the system so they don’t recur.

You decide how the platform is built and operated, within the standards Odin engineering has set, and you raise that bar over time. You model technical excellence and grow the craft of the platform engineers around you. You partner with product team leads as their internal-service counterpart, and with customer success on the issues coming back from customers.

What You Will Do

• Own the bounded services that form the platform. Design, build, and operate them, with infrastructure managed as code you wrote.
• Lead hardware operations. You set how integrators provision devices to Odin's standards, how the fleet is operated day to day, and the contingencies that limit site impact when a device fails.
• Build the monitoring and alerting that catches problems before customers do. Tune for signal, suppress noise, and make the platform's state legible to anyone on the team.
• Own the top of the escalation path for infrastructure and hardware incidents. Lead postmortems that change how the system works, not just document what happened.
• Take your turn on call. You also own the rotation itself, how it's structured, how it scales, and whether it's working for the people in it.
• Write runbooks and automate everything you handle twice. Enable the next support engineer to handle what only you can fix today.
• Improve CI, deploys, environment management, and the developer experience. The kind of work that silently creates the conditions for product teams to ship faster.
• Mentor through code review, runbook reviews, paired incident response, and direct feedback. You raise the bar for the people around you and hold yourself to the same standard.
• Build first-hand knowledge of how Odin's customers actually work. Visit jobsites, sit with workers and security teams, watch the product in use in a guard booth or trailer. Carry that understanding into the operational tooling, monitoring, and runbooks you build.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years in systems and platform engineering, owning production infrastructure that other engineering teams depend on to ship. You have been accountable for whether the platform stays up and stays fast.
• You have managed a platform's infrastructure as code with the same review discipline as application code.
• Backend development depth in a modern TypeScript ecosystem. You still write production code, and you expect to keep writing it in this role.
• Real hardware experience. You have run, supported, or built around production field devices that need installing, replacing, and troubleshooting under conditions you cannot always replicate in a lab.
• You think of engineering teams as your customers. Reliability and developer experience are products you own and improve, the same way product teams own features.
• Calm under pressure. When things are on fire, you slow down. The team takes its temperature from you during incidents.
• Operational maturity is something you bring, not something you need to be taught. You have already built the habits and systems that keep production healthy at a previous job.
• You can tell when a fix is real and when it just made the symptom go away.
• A track record of mentoring other engineers. People who have worked with you have gotten meaningfully better at their craft as a result.
• Strong written and verbal communication. Your runbooks, postmortems, escalation updates, and architecture discussions leave people informed and aligned.
• You have depth in multiple areas, not just one, plus the range to pick up something new and ship work others can build on.
• AI is part of how you work, used to accelerate your engineering rather than replace your judgment. You review and refine every output, and the code you ship is sharp and correct regardless of which tool helped write it.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with construction tech, access control, workforce management, or other software that runs on a jobsite.
• Time at an early-stage startup where you helped shape platform practices, not just follow them.
• Experience operating IoT, badge readers, access control panels, kiosks, or other physical hardware fleets at production volume.
• Postgres at high event volume. You have tuned the kind of queries that only break under production scale, and shipped schema changes without taking hot tables offline.
• Cost discipline on cloud infrastructure. You have spotted and stopped the kind of spend that quietly drifts up until someone notices the invoice.

Our Stack

• Kubernetes hosted on Google Cloud
• Postgres on Cloud SQL
• Node and GraphQL on the backend
• React on the web
• React Native and Expo on mobile
• TypeScript end to end
• Field hardware including badge readers, kiosks, turnstiles, and cameras
• Datadog for observability
• Mintlify for docs
• Figma and Claude Design
• GitHub, Shortcut, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace, Claude

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for you and your family
• Flexible working hours and remote work options
• Generous vacation and paid time off policy

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

To be eligible for this position, you must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.