Staff Frontend Engineer: React, CI/CD, & Scalable Infra

Playground AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity

3 weeks of PTO

Health, vision, and dental benefits

$1200/year education stipend

Free lunch daily

New MacBook

Collaborative culture with autonomy &

Room for growth

Job summary

Playground is expanding its engineering team to build and maintain infrastructure that keeps our platform scalable, secure, and high-performing. You will own deployment pipelines, tooling, and observability to improve uptime and developer experience.

We are seeking self-starters with 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or frontend-focused roles, strong React and Vite experience, and fluency with CI/CD, logging, and security best practices. Join us on a mission to make child care tech better.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering focused on frontend systems.
• Proficiency with React and modern deployment tools.
• Strong experience with Vite, monorepos, and frontend build optimization.
• Experience with logging and monitoring solutions such as Sentry, Datadog, or Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Deep understanding of security best practices and infrastructure resilience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to enhance deployment pipelines, security measures, and infrastructure scalability.
• Optimize Vite configurations to improve build times, reduce bundle sizes, and enhance the developer experience.
• Ensure robust separation between development, staging, and production environments while enabling debugging of critical issues.
• Implement and maintain a centralized queryable logging system to debug and analyze system behavior.
• Improve and maintain real-time service uptime monitoring and alerts using tools like Google Cloud Monitoring, PostHog, Sentry, or similar platforms.
• Maintain and improve internal developer tools to boost productivity, including CI/CD automation and workflow enhancements.
• Ensure compliance with security best practices across deployment and infrastructure processes.
• Write and maintain clear documentation for configurations, processes, and best practices.

Skills

React

CI/CD pipelines

Vite

Logging & monitoring

Security best practices

Frontend systems

Problem-solving

Communication

Tools

Sentry

Datadog

Google Cloud Monitoring

Job description

Playground is expanding its engineering team to build and maintain infrastructure that keeps our platform scalable, secure, and high-performing. You will own deployment pipelines, tooling, and observability to improve uptime and developer experience.

We are seeking self-starters with 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or frontend-focused roles, strong React and Vite experience, and fluency with CI/CD, logging, and security best practices. Join us on a mission to make child care tech better.