Senior Platform Software Engineer (Dev Productivity / Internal Tools)

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 enhance developer productivity through building internal platforms and CI/CD systems. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of developer experience and distributed systems.

This role demands hands-on coding and system design, ensuring engineers can ship faster and operate confidently. With a salary range of $160,000—$250,000, Standard Template Labs encourages innovators to redefine IT management practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-growth or early-stage startups.
• Proven ability to build scalable CI/CD systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and platform services.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our internal developer platform (IDP).
• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems.
• Improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility across services.

Skills

Experience with AI/ML infrastructure

Distributed systems

CI/CD systems

Cloud-native systems (AWS, EKS, Docker, Kubernetes)

PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)

Tools

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

Standard Template Labs is a stealth-mode, AI-native startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. Backed by leading investors, we're leveraging AI, graph-based architecture, and exceptional design to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their technology ecosystems.

The role

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build the systems, tooling, and internal platform that make engineers dramatically more productive.

This role sits at the intersection of:

• Developer experience (DevEx)
• Distributed systems

You’ll build the foundation that enables engineers to Ship faster, Deploy safely, Debug quickly & Operate confidently in production

This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You’ll write code, design systems, and shape how engineering works across the company.

What you’ll work on

Developer Productivity & Internal Platform

• Build and evolve our internal developer platform (IDP)
• Create self-service tooling that makes spinning up services, environments, and infrastructure effortless
• Improve local development workflows, testing, deployment ergonomics, and developer feedback loops
• Reduce operational friction through automation and platform abstractions

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions &Infrastructure-as-code workflows
• Improve: Build times, Deployment reliability & Rollback and recovery systems
• Create deployment workflows that are fast, observable, and boring in production
• Design and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, EKS, Docker & Kubernetes
• Improve platform scalability, resilience, and developer onboarding
• Define service architecture and deployment standards across the engineering organization

Observability & Reliability

• Own observability across the platform using Datadog, Metrics, Logging and Distributed tracing
• Build dashboards, alerts, and operational tooling engineers actually use
• Improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility across services

Distributed Systems & Platform Services

• Work across core infrastructure systems including: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis & Temporal
• Partner closely with backend and AI engineers to improve platform usabilityEstablish engineering standards and platform best practices
• Make infrastructure feel like a product, not a support function
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
• Experience in high-growth or early-stage startups
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure

Why this role matters

Most companies treat platform engineering as support.

We don’t. This team will define how every system is built, every engineer work and how fast we can ship. If we get this right, everything else gets easier.

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at is: $160,000—$250,000 USD.