Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Platform Engineer to strengthen the performance and reliability of our software development lifecycle. You will design, maintain, and evolve automation that accelerates build, test, and release processes across multiple teams, ensuring smooth local and remote workflows and a high-quality developer experience.

Collaborate with software engineers and platform teams to implement scalable platform features, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and tackle bottlenecks

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend/CI/CD systems for high-performing teams.
• Experience creating reusable components and scalable architectures.
• Strong documentation and ability to guide others.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain the build infrastructure for a large Typescript and NodeJS codebase
• Collaborate with software developers and platform engineers to define and refine CI/CD processes
• Identify bottlenecks and automate workflows to speed up development
• Develop and maintain scalable platform features ensuring reliability and availability
• Train and support engineers to use the tools effectively

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

NodeJS & TypeScript

Platform engineering

API design

Linux

Tools

Docker

Github Actions

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure Cloud

Job description

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Platform Engineering team builds the tools and services that accelerate the software development life cycle of the software engineers at the company.

We work on tools that provide a reliable development environment, on tools to easily test locally and remotely, on integrations with Github and Github Actions, and a few other pieces throughout the many stages in our build, test and release pipelines. Our work is essential to the company's success, as we maintain the backbone of the platform, enabling seamless user experiences and fostering innovation across the company.

YOUR MISSION

As a Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in driving the performance and efficiency of the software development life cycle across the organization. You will be responsible for understanding, maintaining, and evolving existing systems while designing and implementing advanced automation tools and optimized workflows. By enabling developers to build, test, and deploy software rapidly and reliably, your work will directly enhance development cycle performance, boosting productivity and quality across the entire development team. This makes your role essential to the company's ongoing success.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, implement and maintain the build infrastructure for a large Typescript and NodeJS codebase
• Collaborate with software developers and platform engineers to define and refine the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes and its best practices
• Identify and address bottlenecks, performance issues, and opportunities for automation within the development pipeline in order to speed up the whole development experience
• Develop and maintain scalable platform features, ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of our software delivery processes
• Care deeply about the problems and needs of our customers, which are all the engineers in the organization, and on training and supporting them to better use the tools we build to improve their quality of life

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 5+ years of experience working on the backend, integrations or CI/CD pipelines of a high-performing engineering team
• Experience building reusable components and libraries, with an understanding of scalable architecture
• Excellent communication skills, with a focus on documenting solutions and providing clear technical guidance
• A strong sense of ownership over critical problem areas
• A thorough understanding of Linux, Docker and CI tools like Github Actions or similar
• Experience in designing, implementing and documenting API services
• Understanding of the NodeJS and Typescript ecosystems, and its automated build and testing tools is a plus
• Kubernetes, Python, Golang, Terraform and Azure Cloud knowledge is another plus
• Experience managing stateful Kubernetes workloads, including operating, scaling, troubleshooting, and improving the reliability of production-grade services
• Comfortable designing and programming custom operators to automate platform workflows, extend infrastructure capabilities, and improve reliability across development and delivery systems
• Experience designing and building AI-powered platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, automate engineering workflows, or enhance CI/CD, observability, testing, and release processes
• A proactive, ownership-driven approach to troubleshooting and supporting critical technical areas
• Experience in making data-driven decisions

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Equal OpportunityWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.