Senior Platform Engineer - Core Services (Remote)
Braintrust
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Job summary
Braintrust is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to guide delivery within the Core Platform portfolio. You will own a major platform area, drive technical execution, and improve reliability and developer experience across identity and access management, API routing, and related services.
The role blends architecture, coding, incident response, and cross-team coordination in a fully remote setting from Costa Rica.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with backend or platform focus.
- 3+ years leading technical execution or coordinating delivery.
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript with production Node.js experience.
- Experience designing distributed APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC).
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD tooling.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL and event-driven architectures.
- Understanding identity and access concepts (OAuth, OpenID, SAML, JWTs).
Responsibilities
- Own architectural direction for Core Platform services and related interfaces.
- Lead quarterly and multi-quarter initiatives from discovery to rollout.
- Produce architecture diagrams, data models, API contracts, and runbooks.
- Mentor engineers, decompose work, and coordinate delivery across the team.
- Ensure reliability, security, and scalable developer experience.
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Job description
Braintrust is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to guide delivery within the Core Platform portfolio. You will own a major platform area, drive technical execution, and improve reliability and developer experience across identity and access management, API routing, and related services.
The role blends architecture, coding, incident response, and cross-team coordination in a fully remote setting from Costa Rica.
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