Senior Platform Engineer: Build IDP & DevEx at Scale

Standard Template Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Template Labs is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build the internal platform and tooling that will dramatically increase engineering productivity. You will own CI/CD, observe and improve platform reliability, and collaborate across DevEx, infra, and backend teams to Ship faster and Deploy safely.

The role combines hands-on coding, system design, and shaping engineering standards across the company.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform engineering and building internal developer platforms.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in startup environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve internal developer platform (IDP).
• Build self-service tooling for services, environments, and infrastructure.
• Improve local development, testing, deployment ergonomics, and feedback loops.
• Reduce operational friction through automation.

Skills

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

GitHub Actions

IaC

Observability

Datadog

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Temporal

Distributed systems

DevEx

Platform engineering

Tools

Git tooling

Terraform

AWS CLI

Job description

Standard Template Labs is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build the internal platform and tooling that will dramatically increase engineering productivity. You will own CI/CD, observe and improve platform reliability, and collaborate across DevEx, infra, and backend teams to Ship faster and Deploy safely.

The role combines hands-on coding, system design, and shaping engineering standards across the company.