Senior Staff Platform Engineer — API Design, Scale & Mentorship

Visalytics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Visalytics in Mountain View, CA, invites an accomplished engineer to design and build core developer platforms, including SDKs, APIs, and tooling infrastructure to boost developer productivity. You will also lead technical strategy and set engineering standards.

You will mentor senior engineers, navigate complex tradeoffs, and shape the long-term platform roadmap, aligning with product goals and scalable, observable systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience designing and operating production-scale developer platforms.
• Strong expertise in microservices, API design, and tradeoff navigation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core developer platforms including SDKs, APIs, and tooling infrastructure.
• Lead technical strategy, set engineering standards, and mentor senior engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

API design

Software architecture

Microservices

Developer experience

SDK development

Infrastructure design

Observability

Mentorship

Technical strategy

Product thinking

Agentic AI

LLM architectures

Job description

Visalytics in Mountain View, CA, invites an accomplished engineer to design and build core developer platforms, including SDKs, APIs, and tooling infrastructure to boost developer productivity. You will also lead technical strategy and set engineering standards.

You will mentor senior engineers, navigate complex tradeoffs, and shape the long-term platform roadmap, aligning with product goals and scalable, observable systems.