Senior / Staff Platform Engineer

Flow; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team dedicated to enhancing living experiences through technology. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the technical direction of the company, focusing on designing and deploying robust platform solutions. Your expertise will ensure the reliability and scalability of systems, making a significant impact on the productivity of the engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that values creativity and accountability, where your contributions will help drive the evolution of platform engineering and enhance decision-making across the organization.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Paid Time Off

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Pre-tax Commuter Benefits

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Free Therapy Services

Wellness Offerings

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or platform engineering experience.
• Ability to design and maintain tools for service reliability.
• Experience in fast-moving startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to define requirements and translate them into solutions.
• Implement scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure.
• Manage a multi-region environment and participate in incident response.

Skills

Software Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Troubleshooting Production Issues

Continuous Delivery

Adaptability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Job description

About the Company

At Flow, we're on a mission to enhance living experiences across communities by leveraging the power of technology. Our focus is on developing, owning, and managing multifamily apartment buildings, where we implement cutting-edge solutions to provide superior living conditions and foster vibrant communities. Our success is built on a foundation of innovation, high standards, and a team-driven approach, where integrity, loyalty, and trust are paramount.

Joining Flow means becoming part of an extraordinary team that values collective achievements over individual accolades. Our team members are passionate about making a meaningful impact, embrace creativity and ambition, and are committed to excellence, urgency, and accountability in all they do.

About the Role

As an early member of our engineering team, you will significantly influence the technical direction of Flow. We are in search of a Senior Platform Engineer who is not only enthusiastic about designing, developing, and deploying robust platform solutions but also committed to ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our system. Your contributions will be foundational in driving Flow towards achieving its goals and making a huge impact on the productivity of our product engineering team.

At Flow, our mission is to utilize cutting-edge technology to enhance decision-making processes across the organization. As innovators in our domain, we aim to not only keep pace with the rapidly changing landscape of platform engineering but to be at the forefront of its evolution.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define clear requirements and translate them into software solutions
• Core contributor to implementing foundational infrastructure, tooling and automation that is scalable, reliable, and secure
• Elevate site reliability engineering best practices while collaborating with back-end developers
• Develop service-level tooling to enhance productionization, data migrations, system hardening, and related initiatives
• Manage and optimize a multi-region environment
• Be available for on-call activities for infrastructure and services

Ideal Background:

• A minimum 10 years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering
• Ability to design, implement and maintain the tools and systems that support service reliability, monitoring, and alerting
• Deep understanding of the principles of ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and efficiency in distributed systems
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience administering cloud-based infrastructure (GCP preferred)
• Experience troubleshooting production issues related to cloud infrastructure, configuration, monitoring, deployments, continuous integration and delivery
• A keen ability to balance elegant design with pragmatic tradeoffs, prioritizing continuous delivery of business value
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new skillsets
• Experience building software in fast-moving startup environments
• Participate in incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues.

$180,000 - $275,000 a year

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package (Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life)
• Paid time off and 13 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Access to HSA-compatible plans
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), free therapy through SpringHealth, acupuncture, and other wellness offerings

Flow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity and/or expression, pregnancy, Veteran status any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, we provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.