Senior Platform Engineer: APIs, Infra & Reliability

Pantograph; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Pantograph is building general purpose robots by training models on internet-scale video, with a focus on scalable backend infrastructure for our customer-facing product.

This internal platform engineering role centers on designing and building shared services, deployment tooling, and reliable data hosting to support accounts, access, messaging, and payments. The ideal candidate blends backend excellence with pragmatic product judgment and hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience building and operating production software.
• Strong backend and infrastructure experience with good product judgment.
• Ability to provide technical guidance while staying hands-on.
• Excellent API design and system architecture judgment.
• Strong collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Experience with deployment, monitoring, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal infrastructure powering our customer-facing product.
• Own shared services, databases, and deployment reliability.
• Collaborate with product, interface, and robot software teams to build APIs and services for accounts, access, messaging, payments, and data hosting.
• Provide technical guidance while staying hands-on.

Skills

Production software

API design

Service architecture

Cross-team collaboration

Deployment & reliability

Interfaces & abstractions

Technical guidance

AI tools usage

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Data storage

Infrastructure security

Job description

Pantograph is building general purpose robots by training models on internet-scale video, with a focus on scalable backend infrastructure for our customer-facing product.

This internal platform engineering role centers on designing and building shared services, deployment tooling, and reliable data hosting to support accounts, access, messaging, and payments. The ideal candidate blends backend excellence with pragmatic product judgment and hands-on leadership.