Senior Platform Engineer — AI‑Driven, Scalable Systems

Altana; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Parental Leave

Health Benefits

401(k) Savings

Commuter Benefits

Calm premium subscription

Pet Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Dependent Care FSA

Job summary

Altana, based in Brooklyn, NY, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help scale our AI-powered product network. You will lead day-to-day engineering, set technical direction, and partner with data scientists to deliver scalable services and APIs.

The role requires 12+ years of experience, cloud deployments, and a track record of shipping from POC to production. We value engineering excellence, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration across a diverse customer base.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of back end or data-driven software experience.
• Deployed production code to cloud environments.
• Delivered incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production.
• Self-starter with experience handling large, complex problems.
• Cares about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge sharing.
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Ingest product requirements, define technical requirements, and design practical, iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals.
• Work with your product manager to develop implementation plans against our technical product roadmaps.
• Maintain, develop, and deploy our customer facing workflows to create and support our overall product architecture.
• Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent, enable, and enhance our product offerings.
• Be responsible for automating, testing, and deploying your own and your team's work.
• Review the code and technical designs authored by your team members, and hold a high bar for quality.
• Mentor developers and help them level up their skills.
• Be responsible for the technical excellence of day‑to‑day work of a team of engineers and ensure that the team's deliverables are maturing along the defined roadmap.
• Drive technical decision‑making and problem‑solving across the team, ensuring solutions are efficient, scalable, and maintainable.
• Identify technical and operational gaps for the team and create plans and work items to address them.
• Serve as the domain expert for a portion of the product surface area, while holding a firm technical understanding for other areas as well.
• Cooperate with team leads and managers in order to keep the team focused on outcomes while delivering sustainable and consistent code.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Cloud Deployments

Software Architecture

Mentoring

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

FastAPI

AWS/Azure

MLFlow

Temporal

OpenSearch

Postgres

Job description

Altana, based in Brooklyn, NY, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help scale our AI-powered product network. You will lead day-to-day engineering, set technical direction, and partner with data scientists to deliver scalable services and APIs.

The role requires 12+ years of experience, cloud deployments, and a track record of shipping from POC to production. We value engineering excellence, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration across a diverse customer base.