Sr. Platform Software Engineer

Standard Template Labs; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Template Labs is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build the internal developer platform and the tooling that makes engineers dramatically more productive.

You’ll work at the intersection of DevEx, distributed systems, and platform services, writing code, designing systems, and shaping engineering practices across the company. This role focuses on scalable CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure is a plus.
• Strong background in distributed systems and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the internal developer platform (IDP).
• Create self-service tooling for services, environments, and infra.
• Improve local development, testing, deployment, and feedback loops.
• Reduce operational friction via automation and abstractions.
• Design and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, EKS, Docker & Kubernetes.
• Define service architecture and deployment standards.

Skills

IDP platform

DevEx

Distributed systems

CI/CD

AWS

EKS

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Temporal

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

STLabs is an AI service management platform that resolves employee requests end-to-end, grounded in a living model of the enterprise. This matters because we're able to resolve requests with full context - the people, systems, services, and policies that define how an organization actually runs. Requests that used to take days of back-and-forth resolve in minutes, right where employees already work.

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 usability

Establish 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.