Senior Platform Engineer: Architect & Scale Core APIs

Daytona Platforms Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; 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.

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.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs

Service-to-service communication

Reliability

Performance at scale

Tools

Kubernetes

Container runtimes

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

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.