Senior Platform Engineer - Onsite SF | Scale & Reliability

Seam; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid health insurance

Generous PTO

Daily lunch in SF office

Job summary

A leading IoT infrastructure provider in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer. In this role, you will own the systems that drive engineering productivity and reliability. You will focus on building TypeScript tooling, optimizing PostgreSQL, and ensuring the platform supports rapid growth. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in backend engineering and experience with distributed systems. Competitive benefits and 100% employer-paid health insurance are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend engineering with platform/infrastructure focus.
• Expert TypeScript and PostgreSQL experience.
• Strong distributed systems and background job processing experience.

Responsibilities

• Design systems handling millions of API requests.
• Build TypeScript tooling that accelerates integration development.
• Optimize PostgreSQL queries and design caching strategies.

Skills

Backend engineering

TypeScript

PostgreSQL optimization

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

DataDog

Grafana

Job description

A leading IoT infrastructure provider in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer. In this role, you will own the systems that drive engineering productivity and reliability. You will focus on building TypeScript tooling, optimizing PostgreSQL, and ensuring the platform supports rapid growth. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in backend engineering and experience with distributed systems. Competitive benefits and 100% employer-paid health insurance are offered.